Gandhi: Prisoner of Hope

Judith Brown. Yale University Press, $44 (456pp) ISBN 978-0-300-05125-4

Brown, a historian at Oxford University, investigates the paradoxical Gandhi's education in law and Hindu theology, his immersion in religion and politics, his manipulation of the media and his policy of nonviolence. Illustrated. (Dec.)

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