About the Book: Gandhi Before India
In 1893, when Mohandas Gandhi set sail for South Africa, he was a briefless
lawyer who had failed to establish himself in India. In this remarkable
biography, Ramachandra Guha argues that the two decades that Gandhi spent in the
diaspora were the making of the Mahatma. It was here that he forged the
philosophy and techniques that would ultimately destroy the British Empire.
Based on archival research in four continents, this book explores Gandhis
experiments with dissident cults, his friendships and enmities, and his failures
as a husband and father. Gandhi before India tells the dramatic story of how he
mobilized a