The Impossible Indian: Gandhi and the Temptations of Violence
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Faisal Devji
Hurst and Co
176 pages, £16.99
This is an account of the Mahatma as a political thinker, one who recognised how the quotidian reality of modern life could be radicalised to produce the most extraordinary effects. Devji’s book reveals Gandhi to be a hard-hitting political thinker, someone willing to countenance violence to achieve his objectives; it challenges the idealistic portrayals of the Mahatma that prevail even today.
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