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Article: In Search of Gandhi: Essays and Reflections.(Book Review)
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- June 22, 2004
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In Search of Gandhi: Essays and Reflections. By B. R. Nanda. (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2002. Pp. x, 270. $35.00.)
The author of this volume, one of the most influential interpreters of Mahatma Gandhi's role in the making of modern India, dates his search for the meaning of Gandhi to the moment on 30 January 1948 when, as a young government official, he heard that Gandhi had been assassinated. Although he had followed Gandhi's career with interest as a college student during the years leading to Indian independence, he had not been an uncritical admirer of his tactics and policies. Now, however, the news of his death left him desolate and inconsolable, ...