Gandhi: The True Man Behind Modern India - Hardcover

There have been enough hagiographies of this great figure, and after his death there was a concerted effort to erase some embarrassing truths from the Gandhi legend. This is a vividly human book.

Adams focuses not on the idealized apostle of peace, but Gandhi the man.

For anyone trying to find a way through the myriad political byways of modern India and Pakistan, Adams's biography is the perfect starting point.

Jad Adams traces the course of Gandhi’s multi-faceted life, and the development of his religious, political, and social thinking over seven tumultuous decades: from his comfortable upbringing in a princely state in Gujarat; his early civil rights campaigns; his leadership through civil disobedience in the 1920s and 1930s that made him a world icon; and finally to his assassination by a Hindu extremist in 1948, only months after the birth of an independent India.An elegant and masterly account of one of the seminal figures of twentieth-century history, Adams presents for the first time the true story behind the man whose life may truly be said to have changed the world.