Gandhi’s definitive chronicler returns with the second volume of the exhaustive biography of one of the most iconic men of the 21st century. Charting the course of his life from 1914, when he left South Africa to return to India, to 1948, when he was assassinated in New Delhi, this landmark book extols Gandhi’s virtues while also being cognisant of his flaws.

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