Mahatma Gandhi and His Apostles

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The elephant is like a rope, says the blind man. It is like a tree-trunk, says another. No, it is like a snake, says a third. Thus Ved Mehta assembles his idiosyncratic reports on the elephant's epidermis, while Judith Brown meticulously measures it inch by inch. Appropriately, the elephant is Mohandas Gandhi, whose effects on his associates, his country, and the world are still being sized up while his image, like that of the Indian elephant, has become deified. Neither book purports to give a comprehensive account of Gandhi's life and thought. Some 400 biographies have already tried, and many are no doubt yet to come. FOREWORD XX I / Subtler and More Lasting Shaves Bapu 3 Relics and Monuments 22 Editors, Biographers, and Bibliographers 33 Family 47 Benefactors 56 I 1 In the Stem 0] the Autobiograyher and His Biographers Banya Origins 69 Kathiawari Boy 75 Rajkot Student in England 83 Barrister 96 Community Servant 107 Satyagrahi in South Africa 779 Satyagrahi in India 131 Constructive Worker 755 Martyr 167 I I I The Company They Keev Nonviolence: Brahmacharya and Goat's Milk 779 Revolution: The Constructive Programme and Its Mahatmas 214 INDEX 252