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Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle with India

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Review of ‘Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle with India’

Mohandas K. Gandhi spent 21 years in South Africa. He arrived in 1893 “as an untested, unknown 23-year-old law clerk brought over from Bombay,” Joseph Lelyveld writes in his fascinating study, Great Soul. By the time he left, “he was well on his way to becoming the Gandhi India would come to revere and, sporadically,…

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