Midnight in Calcutta -- Dawn in Gujarat -- The impact of Victorian London -- Brief interlude at home -- Early traumas and triumphs in South Africa -- Between two worlds -- Satyagraha in South Africa -- Victory through suffering -- The impact of World War I -- Postwar carnage and nationwide Satyagraha -- Cotton spinning -- Rising of the poison -- The road back to Satyagraha -- The salt march and prison aftermath -- From prison to London and back -- Imprisoned soul of India -- Return to rural uplift work -- Prelude to war and partition -- War and peaceful resistance -- War behind bars -- No peace -- Walking alone -- Freedom's wooden loaf -- Great Soul's death in Delhi -- His Indian legacy -- His global legacy.;"Wolpert chronicles the life of Mahatma Gandhi from his early days as a child of privilege to his humble rise to power and his assassination at the hands of a man of his own faith. This trajectory, like that of Christ, was the result of Gandhi's passion: his conscious courting of suffering as the means of reaching divine truth. From his early campaigns to end discrimination in South Africa to his leadership of a people's revolution to end the British imperial domination of India, Gandhi emerges as a man of inner conflicts conquered by his political genius and moral vision. Early influenced by nonviolent teachings in Hinduism, Jainism, Christianity, and Buddhism, he came to insist on the primacy of love for one's adversary in any conflict as the invincible power for change. He fearlessly courted suffering and imprisonment in pursuit of his moral vision. The sweet reasonableness of his "Great Soul," combined with the steel of his unyielding opposition to intolerance and oppression, would inspire India like no leader had since the Buddha - creating a legacy that would encourage Martin Luther King Jr., Nelson Mandela, and other global leaders to demand a better world through peaceful civil disobedience."--Jacket.