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Article Excerpt IN SEARCH OF GANDHI: ESSAYS AND REFLECTIONS
B. R. Nanda
New York: Oxford University Press, 2002
270 pages, cloth, $45.00
It is a pleasure to review this volume by B. R. Nanda, whom I consider the greatest historian of Gandhi and the Gandhi era today. Nanda's value comes--in addition to his direct, often quietly impassioned writing--from his careful historicity dedicated to the service of his life's work on Gandhi and those around him. We need his ability to appreciate greatness without illusion in this degrading age, and his devotion to reality when truth has so far gone out of fashion.
The book consists of twenty-nine "essays and reflections," on the luminaries who were drawn to Gandhi and worked, quarreled, and lived with him during those extraordinary years on a variety of other important topics such as Gandhi and the Jews, Gandhi...
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