Great Soul

Description

A profoundly unique, mixing book on Mahatma Gandhi that develops our feeling

of his accomplishments and dissatisfactions—his achievement in holding onto

India’s creative mind and forming its autonomy battle as a mass development,

his acknowledgment late in life that a couple of his adherents offered

more than empty talk to his driven objectives of social equity for the nation’s minorities,

outsiders, and rustic poor.

Pulitzer Prize–victor Joseph Lelyveld shows in clear,

unequaled detail how Gandhi’s feeling of mission, social qualities,

and reasoning of peaceful obstruction were molded o

n another subcontinent—during twenty years in South Africa—and afterward tried by

an India that immediately figured out how to love him as a Mahatma, or “Extraordinary Soul.

,” while following him just a little mostly to the social change he imagined.