Simone Panter-Brick's elegant new study attends to the stages and evolution of Gandhi's nationalism. Brimming with insight and written with a sure and fluid hand, Panter-Brick carefully navigates through and makes sense of the often dramatic turns in Gandhi's political vision and strategies for attaining independence. Karuna Mantena, Associate Professor of Political Science, Yale University Was Gandhi a ... Read morenationalist? This engrossing and intricate study illuminates the thought and action of Churchill's "half-naked fakir" as he resisted anti-Indian legislation in South Africa in his younger days, accepted separation from the British Empire in middle age, and labored to prevent the partition of the subcontinent late in life. Any reader wishing to fathom just what India meant to Gandhi should read this book, the work of an author who understands "Gandhianity" and "Indianity" almost as well as the Mahatma did himself. Paul Jankowski, Ray Ginger Professor of History, Brandeis University Show Less