In Search of Gandhi: Essays and Reflections.(Book Review)

From: International Journal on World Peace | Date: June 1, 2005| Author: Nagler, Michael | Copyright information

IN SEARCH OF GANDHI: ESSAYS AND REFLECTIONS

B. R. Nanda

New York: Oxford University Press, 2002

270 pages, cloth, $45.00

It is a pleasure to review this volume by B. R. Nanda, whom I consider the greatest historian of Gandhi and the Gandhi era today. Nanda's value comes--in addition to his direct, often quietly impassioned writing--from his careful historicity dedicated to the service of his life's work on Gandhi and those around him. We...

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