The Un-Gandhian Gandhi: The Life and Afterlife of the Mahatma

This major study reconsiders the creation of the Gandhian legend through the myriad texts and images that helped spread it through both India and the Western world.

Claude Markovits is Director of research at CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique) and is Director of the Centre d’Etudes de L’Inde et de L’Asie du Sud, L’Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, France.