Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi ("Mahatma" is an honorific, meaning "Great Soul") was born in 1869 into a family of the merchant/administrative caste. He became a lawyer, studying for three years in ...

In the second part of the planned two-volume biography, Guha will write about Gandhi's 33 years in India, until his assassination by a Hindu nationalist in 1948.

In banning Joseph Lelyveld's new biography of Mohandas Gandhi, the Indian leader's native state of Gujarat has ensured a result — as so often happens in censorship cases — that it surely didn ...

Joseph Lelyveld, a former executive editor of The New York Times, has written a biography of Mohandas Gandhi called Great Soul. It doesn't seem like Lelyveld set out to pen a hatchet job--The Wall ...

In a sense, “Gandhi” is a gloss on its subject’s life rather than a conventional biography, but there is nothing abbreviated about the book.

In our review, Kirsch writes, ‘Lelyveld has denied that he meant to characterize them as lovers, and his book quotes one Gandhi scholar to the effect that their relationship was ‘’’clearly ...

In this revealing, original portrait of the man known as the “Father of India,” Joseph Lelyveld charts the development of Gandhi’s social vision, tying his early experiences as a … ...

The book itself hasn't been released in India yet, but politicians are reacting to a review that highlighted passages suggesting Gandhi may have been bisexual.