Overview

The book is a definitive account of Gandhi's major critics. It presents a detailed and comprehensive account of each critic, assesses their criticisms of Gandhi and underlines the significance and achievements of Gandhi against the backdrop of the critiques - from contemporaries like the Nehrus (Motilal and Jawaharlal), Tagore, Churchill, Jinnah, Periyar, Savarkar, Ambedkar, Subhas Bose, the Marxists (from the mid-1920s until 1947 and post-independence), P.C. Ray, Visvesvaraya and Saha, to later critics like Orwell, Alinsky, Mandela, King and critics from Africa.

The volume will be of immense importance to scholars and students of undergraduate and postgraduate courses in political science and South Asian studies. It will also be of interest to general readers interested in history and politics.