About the Book: Arguments with Gandhi
In Arguments with Gandhi, Ramachandra Guha uses the legacy of Mahatma Gandhi to
present a moral and political history of the modern world. The Gandhi of this
book is a compelling as well as controversial figure, whose ideas on
non-violence, social justice, religious harmony and economic policy have
elicited a wide range of responses, affirmative as well as critical. As Guha
demonstrates, Gandhis debates with his contemporaries, and the arguments of
later generations with him, foreground some of the vital questions of human
existence that we still confront: How do we best resist political tyranny? How
do we mitigate discrimination on