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Law Practice,
Books

Dec. 14, 2018

Gandhi: lawyer, mahatma

Richard Wirick reviews Ramachandra Guna’s latest book, “Gandhi: The Years that Changed the World.”

Richard Wirick

Partner
Risk Management and Insurance Litigation (RMIL) Practice Group at Haight, Brown & Bonesteel LLP (Haight).

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Gandhi: lawyer, mahatma
Knopf 2018

In his first book, "Gandhi Before India," Ramachandra Guha finely chronicled Gandhi's early years as a barrister in South Africa, perfecting his skills as a negotiator for the merchant class of Indians moving, east to west, through the continent's narrowing bottom. Before that was "India After Gandhi," which set out the posthumous influence of his mythological machinery. Guha has now had access to thousands of pages of the Mahatma's (Sanskrit for "great soul") persona...

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