Tidrick Kathryn - Gandhi A Political And Spiritual Life - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: Throughout his long and turbulent career as a political leader first in South Africa and then in India Gandhi sought to fulfil his religious aspirations through politics and to reconcile politics with personal religious conviction. But Gandhi's religion was wildly divergent from anything to have taken root in his native India. Foremost among his private tenets was the belief that he was a world saviour long prophesied and potentially divine. Penetrating and provocative Kathryn Tidrick's book draws on neglected material to explore the paradoxes within Gandhi's life and personality. She reveals a man whose spiritual ideas originated not in India but in the drawing rooms of late - Victorian England and which included some very eccentric and damaging notions about sex. The resulting portrait is complex convincing and to anyone interested in the legacy of colonialism more enlightening than any previously published. The Gandhi revealed here is not the secular saint of popular renown but a difficult and self - obsessed man driven by a messianic sense of personal destiny.
Title: Gandhi A Political And Spiritual Life
Author(s): Tidrick Kathryn
Publisher: Verso Books
Barcode: 9781781681015
Pages: 400 Pages
Publication Date: 7/2/2013
Category: Political Leaders & Leadership