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Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and his Struggle with India By Joseph Lelyveld
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Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and his Struggle with India

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Publisher: Harpercollins India Publishers Ltd. (2011)  
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A highly original, stirring book on Mahatma Gandhi that deepens our sense of his achievements and disappointments. This is a vital, brilliant reconsideration of Gandhi???s extraordinary struggles on two continents, of his fierce but, finally, unfulfilled hopes, and of his ever-evolving legacy, which more than six decades after his death still ensures his place as India???s social conscience ??? and not just India???s.

About the Author
Pulitzer Prize winner Joseph Lelyveld worked with the New York Times for nearly four decades, ending up as executive editor from 1994 to 2001. His book on apartheid, Move Your Shadow: South Africa, Black and White, won the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-fiction. He lives in New York.

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Author Joseph Lelyveld
Book Details
Publisher Harpercollins India Publishers Ltd.
Publication Year 2011
ISBN-13 9789350290583
ISBN-10 9350290583
Language English
Binding Hardcover
Number of Pages 452 Pages
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Weight 590 g

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03 March 12
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Great Book on the Greatest Soul.

An excellent book which provides facts until unknown to many of a very known man. The controversy has made the book more popular.

Great writing style. Excellent coinage of words. I have read this book in a single sitting and though perplexed in some areas I would recommend this to all. Though at first seem objectionable, the author and his extensive research dwells into the details that, as Indians, we are afraid to look into.

I would recommend this book along with 'My Experiments with Truth' and 'Freedom at Midnight' to any student of Indian political history.

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07 June 11
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a critique's Gandhi biography

A biased but intellectually stimulating biography of Gandhi.The book is lucidly written and highly readable.The research done by Joseph is thorough and painstaking. The chapters relating to indentured labour, Ambedkar, Sevagram ,Do or Die , partition are highly engaging, and throws some new light on the gandhi principles, experiments and influence.This book changed my perspective. My reverence for Gandhi enhanced.

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08 June 11
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CRITICAL BUT NOT IRREVERENTIAL

Lelyveld has delved intensely on those aspects of Gandhi's life which people find most convenient to criticise, and at no point has he taken a tone that can be termed disrespectful towards the Mahatma; on the other hand I found him much closer to the truth. As an outsider he has not failed to give a neutral account of 'the great lesson' which we as Indians mostly are unable to, for we either revere him or not.

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25 December 11
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Very moving!

Joseph Lelyveld foremost is very readable. What also stands out is a painstakingly constructed of Gandhiji's South Africa stay and how it is a prologue to his engagement with our own freedom struggle. Again, this is not a hagiography and parts of it can offend real and pretentious claimant's to his legacy.

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