The book is a definitive account of Gandhi’s major critics. It presents a detailed and comprehensive account of each critic, assesses their criticisms of Gandhi and underlines the significance and achievements of Gandhi in the backdrop of the critiques - from contemporaries like the Nehrus, Tagore, Churchill, Jinnah, Periyar, Ambedkar, Savarkar, Subhas, the Marxists (till 1947 and post-independence), Saha, Visvesvaraya to later critics like Orwell, Malcolm X, Gramsci, Alinsky, Mandela, King and Russell.The volume will be of immense importance to scholars and students of undergraduate and post graduate courses in political science and South Asian studies. It will also be of interest to general readers interested in history and politics.
