Andimuthu raja biography of mahatma

  • The life of Mahatma Gandhi is the story of a legend.
  • When Raja Rao's biography of Mahatma Gandhi was published in 1998, it was seen as a coming together of two great minds.
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  • Raja Rao

    Indian-American English writer

    The Great Indian Way: A Life of Mahatma Gandhi
    Raja Rao
    Pages: 480
    Price: Rs. 395
    Format: Paperback
    ISBN: 8170945682
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    "Without Gandhi," wrote Raja Rao once, "there can be no world of tomorrow." Now at the dawn of a new millennium, and Gandhi internationally acknowledged as a most influential figure of the twentieth century, the Great Indian Way offers fresh, important perspectives on his life — and Gandhism.

    The book focuses especially on Gandhi’s South African days. The birth of Gandhism, Raja Rao holds, lay in the confrontation between the Briton, the Boer and the Indian "coolie". Gandhism was tested and fashioned in many a struggle in the "dark continent": the most cataclysmic of all, perhaps, the mass strike bygd Indian coal miners in Newcastle against the move to hold Indian marriages invalid. Thus was born the truth-warrior — a

  • andimuthu raja biography of mahatma
  • The Great Indian Way: A Life of Mahatma Gandhi

    This Book Offers Fresh, Important Perspectives On Mahatma Gandhi`S Life And Gandhism. The Focus Is Specially On Gandhiji`S South African Days. Gandhism Touched The Very Nerve Centre Of The British Empire And Within Fifty Years Catalysed The Political Transformation Of India And The World. In South Africa Too It Was That Gandhi Sought The Right Way To Live And Experimented With All That He Later Practised Both In His Public And Private Life. Raja Rao Weaves Together The Whole Chronicle In Epic Dimensions - In Vigorous, Rythmic, Moving Cadences, Uncovering Hidden Meaning In An Aside Here, A Parable There Unfolding The Mahatma`S Life And The Meaning Of Gandhism On A Vast Canvas.

    Raja Rao

    Born(1908-11-08)8 November 1908
    Hassan, Kingdom of Mysore, British India
    (now in Karnataka, India)
    Died8 July 2006(2006-07-08) (aged 97)
    Austin, Texas, USA
    OccupationWriter, professor
    LanguageKannada, French, English
    Alma materOsmania University
    University of Madras, University of Montpellier
    Sorbonne
    Period1938–1998
    GenreNovel, short story, essay
    Notable worksKanthapura (1938)
    The Serpent and the Rope (1960)
    Notable awards
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    Raja Rao (8 November 1908 – 8 July 2006) was an Indian-American writer of English-language novels and short stories, whose works are deeply rooted in metaphysics. The Serpent and the Rope (1960), a semi-autobiographical novel recounting a search for spiritual truth in Europe and India, established him as one of the finest Indian prose stylists and won him the Sahitya Akademi Award in