GANDHI: AN IMPOSSIBLE POSSIBILITY (SECOND EDITION)

Gandhi was perhaps the most influential yet misunderstood figure of the twentieth century. Drawing close attention to his last years, this book explores the marked change in his understanding of the acceptance of non-violence by Indians. It points to a startling discovery Gandhi made in the years preceding India’s independence and Partition: the struggle for freedom which he had all along believed to be non-violent was in fact not so. He realised that there was a causal relationship between the path of illusory Ahimsa, which had held sway during the freedom struggle, and the violence that erupted thereafter during Partition.