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The culmination of his life's work came when Indian independence was conceded in March 1946 and the British Raj came to an end the following year. Ironically his own life was about to come to a violent end with the bullets of an assassin.
I finished this book with mixed feelings. Gandhi was clearly certainly a tenacious fighter, prepared to put his life on the line by fasting to death if need be, to achieve his objectives. Looking back on his life and career from an Indian perspective, he was clearly a great man. Yet from the British point of view he was obviously an adversary to be feared. This biography is rightly objective about his strengths and weaknesses, acknowledging his achievements while not glossing over his faults, the criticism which he drew from those on his own side, or even his often high-handed treatment, bordering on cruelty, of his own family.
Our thanks to Quercus for sending Bookbag a copy for review.