Reading and Reappraising Gandhi by Ram Chandra Pradhan
Macmillan. Pages: xiv+290. Price: Rs. 210/-
From being a flesh-and-blood reality Mahatma Gandhi has gradually acquired all the trappings of a mythological icon. Not his doing, of course. Yet, his thoughts and actions have been undergoing constant analyses by various scholars; and ordinary folks too. Was he a moralist-idealist or a pragmatist; a visionary statesman or a street-savvy politician? There is any number of people who worshipfully put him on the pedestal and deify him. But there are others who rail against him – pointing out various failings, both in his personal and public realms. However, with passage of time – as new social, political as well as economic contexts arise – the need to reinterpret the Mahatma becomes pertinent. As a result, a rich corpus of analytical writings on the Mahatma has come into existence. This volume takes a comprehensive look at the various writings on (some of them quite recent) and by the Mahatma. This book would be quite useful for ordinary readers as well as students of Gandhian studies.
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