'Cuts through the extensive literature on Gandhi to produce a vibrant portrait of a world historical figure ... avoiding a simplistic judgement on this vastly important man for India's national struggle' -- Vijay Prashad, Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research

'Considering all the biographies that glorify Gandhi, this concise book adopts a refreshing and consistently critical approach' -- Dr Yasmin Khan, author of 'The Raj at War: A People's History of India's Second World War'

'This is an outstanding book on Gandhi's life. Ahmed relates Gandhi to the struggles of anti-imperialist forces and illuminates his innovations in tactics of political resistance' -- Meghnad Desai, author of 'The Rediscovery of India'

Talat Ahmed is Lecturer in South Asian History at the University of Edinburgh. She is a Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society and the author of Mohandas Gandhi: Experiments in Civil Disobedience (Pluto, 2018) and of a study of the All-India Progressive Writers' Association entitled Literature and Politics in the Age of Nationalism: The Progressive Episode in South Asia, 1932-56 (Routledge, 2009).