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<p>No single person is more directly associated with India and India's struggle for independence than Mahatma Gandhi. His name has equally become synonymous with the highest principles of global equality, human dignity, and freedom.</p> <p>Joseph Alter argues, however, that Gandhi has not been completely understood by biographers and political scholars, and in <i>Gandhi's Body</i> he undertakes a reevaluation of the Mahatma's life and thought. In his revisionist and iconoclastic approach, Alter moves away from the usual focus on nonviolence, peace, and social reform and takes seriously what most scholars who have studied Gandhi tend to ignore: Gandhi's preoccupation with sex, his obsession with diet reform, and his vehement advocacy for naturopathy. Alter concludes that a distinction cannot be made between Gandhi's concern with health, faith in nonviolence, and his sociopolitical agenda.</p> <p>In this original and provocative study, Joseph Alter demonstrates that these seemingly idiosyncratic aspects of Gandhi's personal life are of central importance to understanding his politics—and not only Gandhi's politics but Indian nationalism in general. Using the Mahatma's own writings, A

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Author

Joseph S. Alter

Publisher

Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9780812204742

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Anthropology, Memoir, History