TY - BOOK AU - Raja Rao TI - MAHATMA GANDHI : Great Indian Way T2 - Modern Classics SN - 9780143448594 U1 - 954.035092 PY - 2020////01/01 CY - USA PB - Penguin Books KW - Gandhi, -- Mahatma, -- 1869-1948 KW - Statesmen -- India -- Biography KW - Nationalists -- India -- Biography KW - India -- Politics and government -- 1919-1947 KW - India N1 - The life of Mahatma Gandhi is the story of a legend. In Mahatma Gandhi: The Great Indian Way , Raja Rao upends the genre of the literary biography with inventive non-linear chronology, through dialogue and anecdote, situating the physical within the metaphysical, and with a text that is both retrospective and contemporary at the same time. By mapping genealogies and distilling them, Rao focuses on Gandhi's years in South Africa, the birth of non-violent resistance, and then moves into the epic freedom struggle in India, which brought Gandhi to worldwide renown in his own lifetime. With an emphasis on the idea of ​​dharma as a framework for Gandhism, both in South Africa and India, this is the story of the man as much as the Mahatma ER -