01765nam a22002657a 4500 20220624143341.0 220624b ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 014025563X AL English 23 954.035 GANG Rajmohan Gandhi 44990 Good Boatman: A Portrait of Gandhi New Delhi Penguin Books 1997 xix,494 p. PB 20x13 cm. ₹295.00 ₹ ₹295.00 A new and illuminating portrait of one of the greatest figures of the twentieth century. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi has been the subject of over a dozen well-regarded biographies, yet key aspects of the man still prove elusive. In this book, Rajmohan Gandhi, a grandson of Mahatma Gandhi and an acclaimed biographer and scholar, attempts to understand the phenomenon that was Gandhi. This he does by examining in detail dominant and varied themes of Gandhi’s life—his unsuccessful bid to keep India united, his attitude towards caste and untouchability; his relationship with those whose empire he challenged; his controversial experiments with chastity; his views on God, truth and non-violence; and his selection of heirs to lead a new-born nation. For a generation growing up on images of a simplified Father of the Nation and apostle of non-violence frozen in statues or reduced to a few predictable strokes of an artist’s pen, this biography offers a rewarding insight into the man, his victories and his defeats. Nationalists 44991 India 44992 Statesmen 44993 Politics and government 44994 Gandhi, Mahatma, 1869-1948 44995 GANDHI (Rajmohan) 44996 ddc GF 223477 223477 0 0 ddc 0 0 HIS AL AL 2013-03-23 1 954.035 GANG GF03847 2023-08-02 00:00:00 2023-08-01 2022-06-24 GF