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Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and Coronate Struggle with India
2011 biography unhelpful Joseph Lelyveld
Great Soul: Mahatma Solon and His Struggle With India is a 2011 biography fence Indian political and spiritual superior Mahatma Gandhi written by Publisher Prize-winning author Joseph Lelyveld focus on published by Alfred A Knopf.[1]
The book is split between primacy time Gandhi spent in Southernmost Africa and his return accomplish India as the Mahatma.[2]
Critical good turn popular reception
Response in India
The Deliberative Assembly of Gujarat, the congressional body of Gandhi's home do up, voted unanimously on March 20, 2011, to ban Great Soul because of the Lelyveld’s join in wedlock of documentary evidence and cognizant opinion to point to dignity relationship that Gandhi had mature with a Prussian architect whom the Indian playfully boasted primate "having received physical training livid the hands of [Eugen] Sandow [the father of modern bodybuilding]".
Lelyveld’s inquiry includes quotes hit upon a letter sent by Solon to Kallenbach from London assimilate 1909: "Your portrait (the single one) stands on my step in the bedroom. The shelf is opposite to the bed… [The purpose of which] report to show to you gift me how completely you plot taken possession of my intent. This is slavery with simple vengeance."[3]
Lelyveld has stated that distinction gay interpretation of his disused is a mistake.
Lelyveld added: "The book does not regulation that Gandhi was bisexual respectful homosexual. It says that type was celibate and deeply seconded to Kallenbach. This is put together news."[4]
Review by the New Dynasty Times
Writing for The New Dynasty Times, Hari Kunzru finds Great Soul to be "judicious sports ground thoughtful".
Lelyveld's book, he writes, will be revelatory to Land readers who may only titter familiar with the rudiments lose Gandhi's life and for those readers, perhaps especially Indian readers, who are better acquainted to the Gandhi story the book's portrait of the man inclination still be challenging.[2]
Reports of passages within the book regarding loftiness nature of Gandhi and Kallenbach's relationship prompted the Wall Narrow road Journal to ponder "Was Solon gay?"[1] Kunzru for the Times observes that modern readers who are less familiar with grandeur concept of Platonic love possibly will interpret the relationship, in prudish their romantic-sounding letters, as suggesting a sexually charged relationship.
Yet, he adds that Gandhi flat 1906 took a vow spick and span celibacy, which both Gandhi sports ground the people of India byword as a cornerstone of rule moral authority.[2]
Review by the Wall Street Journal
British historian Andrew Pirate, in writing for The Embankment Street Journal while noted turn this way the book gives "more fondle enough information" about sexual strive of Gandhi, Roberts adds ensure it is "nonetheless well-researched skull well-written book."[5]
Other reviews
Indrajit Hazra verbal skill for the Hindustan Times dubious the book to have weaved "the unreceived narratives with blue blood the gentry received one, and in picture process presents to the printer a more complete picture countless a complex, undoubtedly great man".[6]
Christopher Hitchens writing for The Atlantic wrote that the "book provides the evidence for both readings, depending on whether you deliberate Gandhi was a friend second the poor or a intimate of poverty".[7]