Joseph Lelyveldâ??s biography, Great Soul: Mahatama Gandhi and His Struggle with India, has been praised as â??scrupulousâ? by Christopher Hitchens in The Atlantic, as â??judicious and thoughtfulâ? by Hari Kunzru in The New York Times and as a â??seamless, impartial accountâ? by Christine Armario of Associated Press. For all of its scrupulousness, though, the book is shy when it comes to its subjectâ??s views on the economy.
Yet an understanding of Mahatmanomics is critical to understanding Gandhi and the catastrophically impoverished post-imperial India his legend helped to create.
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