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Beginning with Wolpert’s 1948 arrival in India and witnessing the immersion of Gandhi’s ashes, the narrative traces how these early impressions redirected him from engineering to Indian history. It then describes his long effort to understand Gandhi’s motivations, shaped by study of Gandhi’s writings and biographical archives, and renewed by major events in India in the late 1990s.","G A N D H1'SP A S S I○ NJhe Lijle and Jegacy o/Mahatma 9andhiS TA N⊥EY WOLPE RT☰☰☰☰  \nGandhi's Passion  \nThis page intentionally left blank  \nGANDHI'S PASSIONThe Life and Legacyof Mahatma Gandhi  \nSTANLEY WOLPERT  \nOXFORD  \nUNIVERSITY PRESS  \nOxford New YorkAuckland Bangkok Buenos Aires  \nCape Town Chennai Dar es Salaam Delhi Hong Kong  \nIstanbul Karachi Kolkata Kuala Lumpur Madrid Melbourne Mexico CityMumbai Nairobi Sāo Paulo Shanghai SingaporeTaipei Tokyo Toronto  \nand an associated company in Berlin  \nCopyright ◎2001 by Stanley Wolpert  \nFirst published by Oxford University Press,Inc.,2001198 Madison Avenue,New York,New York,10016  \nFirst issued as an Oxford University Press paperback,2002  \nOxford is a registered trademark of Oxford University Press  \nAll rights reserved.No part of this publicationmay be reproduced,stored in a retrieval system,or transmitted,in any form or by any means,electronic,mechanical,photocopying,recording,or otherwise,without the priorpermission of Oxford University Press.  \nLibrary of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data  \nWolpert,Stanley.  \nGandhi's passion:the life and legacy of Mahatma Gandhi/Stanley Wolpert  \nP.cm.  \nIncludes bibliographical references and index.ISBN 0-19-513060-X(cloth)ISBN0-19-515634-X(pbk.)  \n1.Gandhi,Mahatma,1869-1948.  \n2.Statesmen—India—Biography.  \n3.Nationalists—India—BiographyDS481.G3 W642001954.03'5'092—dc21[B]00-045298  \n35798642  \nPrinted in the United States of Americaon acid-free paper  \n# for\n\nJohn Kenneth Galbraithwho has so generously sharedhis love of India,his friendshipand his wisdom  \nThis page intentionally left blank  \n# PREFACE\n\nFOR MORE THAN half a century,from the day I first set foot onIndian soil,February 12,1948,the day one-seventh of MahatmaGandhi's ashes were immersed in waters off Bombay,I have been fas-cinated by the remarkable life and tragic death of the man Indians call\"Great Soul\"(Mahatma)and “Little Father”(Bapu).  \nStepping ashore at Bombay's bustling gateway to India I found myselfsurrounded by more people than I had ever seen,millions of white-cladmourners headed to Chowpatty beach,where a glistening white ship borethe urn filled with a portion of Gandhi's remains.As that bright vesselweighed anchor,thousands waded after it in the bay,hoping to touch theMahatma's ashes before they were swallowed by the sea.  \nAt that time I knew no more about Gandhi than that he was called theFather of India yet had been murdered by an Indian of his own Hindu faith.The many questions raised by what I saw and heard that day changed thecourse of my life from marine engineering to Indian history.A decade later,when I began teaching at UCLA,I wrote my first book about Gandhi,a fic-tionalized story of his assassination,published as Nine Hours to Rama.  \nOver the next four decades I periodically considered writing the historyof Gandhi's life and his leadership of the Indian National Congress.After ayear or two of trying in vain to plumb the ocean of Gandhiana with its con-flicting currents,however,I returned enthusiastically to teaching,opting totackle other subjects and less enigmatic lives.Though invariably dauntedby Gandhi's elusive personality and the extent of his archive,I kept hopingthat greater maturity and deeper knowledge of India would help me to un-derstand the Mahatma's mentality and reasons for his often contradictorybehavior.  \n# Preface\n\nAfter completing my India,A New History of India,Morley and India,Jinnah of Pakistan,Zulf Bhutto of Pakistan,and Nehru:A Tryst with Des-tiny,I decided it was time to return to the challenge of Gandhi.That wasfive years ago,when all ninety volumes of The Collected Works of Ma-hatma Gandhi had been published by Navajivan Press,in Ahmedabad,where Gandhi had founded his first 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