Year, when he slept naked with young women in order to test his sexual self-control. But Gandhi lived out his life more publicly than any of them - he made no attempt to conceal even the weird experimenting of his last Published biographies of Mohammed Ali Jinnah, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and Jawaharlal Nehru. It was the tests, and the euphoric reaction to them, that shocked Stanley Wolpert, an emeritus professor of South Asian history at the University of California, Los Angeles, into writing ''Gandhi's Passion.'' Wolpert had previously There can be little doubt that if Godse had lived to see India's nuclear tests of 1998, he would have been among the middle-class Hindus who cheered the prime minister's announcement that ''India Godse said, India would be ''free to follow the course founded on reason which I consider to be necessary for sound nation-building'' it would ''surely be practical, able to retaliate,Īnd would be powerful with armed forces.''įar from being a lone gunman, Godse spoke for millions of educated Hindus, including some of Gandhi's closest disciples, who felt that the ''father of the nation'' was a burden upon a country that now had to be governed in modern, Voice, the fast, the prayer and the purity of the mind.'' He had felt that nonviolence of the kind Gandhi advocated could only ''lead the nation toward ruin.'' With Gandhi out of the way, In a remarkably coherent statement in court, Godse explained that he had killed Gandhi in order to cleanse India of such ''old superstitious beliefs'' as the ''power of the soul, the inner More than 30 years later, a few months after India's long-delayed independence in 1947, Gandhi was assassinated by a Hindu Brahmin named Nathuram Godse, who turned out to have been one of the many rationalists exasperated and bewildered by Gandhi. ''The saint has left our shores, I hope, forever.'' Jan Smuts, was relieved enough to write to a friend, When he finally left SouthĪfrica in 1914, after having organized a small and frequently trampled-upon Indian minority into a significant political force, his greatest Afrikaner adversary, Gen. Two extraordinary decades during which he moved from being the resentful victim of local racial humiliations to the initiator of a wholly new kind of political activism based upon nonviolence. He planned to spend a year he ended up spending N 1894, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi arrived in South Africa as a young shiftless lawyer from India. Many of Gandhi's fellow Indians thought he was out of date in an independent India.
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