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My struggle is not merely political. It is religious and therefore quite pure. _x000D_ _x000D_ How did Gandhi reconcile his political career with his religious beliefs? Why was he so revered by so many in his lifetime and ever since? And what gave him such belief in his own destiny to liberate his country and change the world? _x000D_ _x000D_ This fresh and original interpretation of one of the twentieth century s most extraordinary personalities shows for the first time how Gandhi s religious beliefs, political career and personal behaviour form a coherent whole. Tidrick revealingly examines Gandhi s ideas about the relationship between sexual control and power, and the bizarre and scandalous behaviour that resulted, and explores his interest in new religious and philosophical thinking. Drawing on material neglected by earlier biographers, the portrait which emerges does not show the secular saint of popular myth but a difficult and self-obsessed man driven to pursue the world-changing destiny he believed was marked out for him._x000D_ _x000D_ This is a book primarily about Gandhi s ideas, where they came from and how he put them to work in his own life and in the Indian nationalist movement. Its novelty lies in the great attention which is paid to the late Victorian experiment with new ideas - for instance, vegetarianism, theosophy and non-violence which, with Gandhi s own distinctive understanding of Hinduism as a faith of social action, went to give his life and his politics such a remarkable form Francis Robinson, Professor of the History of South Asia, Royal Holloway, University of London_x000D_ _x000D_ Shows considerable knowledge and understanding of the political and social context of Gandhi's evolving thought. The portrait of Gandhi is a broadly sympathetic one, but it is certainly not uncritical, bringing out some of the contradictions in his stance on non-violence and communal relations, criticising his treatment of his wife and exposing some of his bizarre attitudes to sex David Omissi, Senior Lecturer in Imperial History, University of Hull

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