Ebook: Gandhi: [the true man behind modern India]

The partition of India, 1947 -- South Africa, 1893 -- Introduction: Naked ambition -- Childhood and marriage -- London lessons -- Adventures in Natal -- Challenge and chastity -- The army of the poor -- Village activist -- Arousing India -- The salt march -- World icon -- Quit India -- Partition and death -- Legacy.;Gandhi has inspired civil rights and liberation movements the world over. Yet he was also a man of many contradictions. His resistance to racism strikes a thoroughly modern note, but his vision of India was that of an almost medieval society. Adams delineates Gandhi's incredible drive, including his relentless reinvention of his own persona.