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Title: Historical Revision at its worst
Review: I have no problem reading criticisms of gandhi and his ideas, but this book goes beyond that. It denies the very escence of gandhis teachings for no other purpose than to do just that. The Historian who wrote this is a revisionist. While at times, Revisionism can be helpful in understanding characters-this is revisionism for revionism sake. The claim of the book that gandhi was a racist and hindu fundamentalist is absolutly absurd when one reads gandhis writings on religion and truth, "differen't roads converging at the same point," is not a mark of fundamentalism. I found this book to be very poor in trying to be overly critical, and took many parts of gandis life out of context
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