In the socio-political milieu of the forties in India, the most
contentious decade of the last century, ravaged with war, the Quit
India movement, famine, partition and the civil war, the author
draws our attention to Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, the father of
the Indian Independence Movement, who, as he puts it, 'symbolised
the conflicts and paradoxes of that time of transition'. As one
critically examines Gandhi's views during the period of India's
passage to political independence on issues such as war,
decolonisation, nationalist challenge, state sovereignty, problems
of governance and so on, a pertinent question surfaces: was Gandhi
as confident in his political agenda and methods as history has
asserted to the present day? Gandhi, again a satyagrahi, an ardent
propagator of non-violent resistance to injustice throughout his
life, appears in the eyes of the Englishmen, as an extremist and
saboteur of the Allied democratic cause in the World War II. Using
his scholarly acumen, the author unveils a new dimension to
Gandhi's towering personality with the suggestion that time was
closing down on him. It was a situation of classic aporia, when
exit from the problem that Gandhi struggled to escape from became
impossible in its own terms.
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