''Gandhi Before India'' is a 2013 book by the Indian historian

Ramachandra Guha Ramachandra "Ram" Guha (born 29 April 1958) is an Indian historian, environmentalist, writer and public intellectual whose research interests include social, political, contemporary, environmental and cricket history, and the field of economics. ...

, the first part of a planned two-volume biography of

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (; ; 2 October 1869 – 30 January 1948), popularly known as Mahatma Gandhi, was an Indian lawyer, Anti-colonial nationalism, anti-colonial nationalist Quote: "... marks Gandhi as a hybrid cosmopolitan figure ...

. The book deals with Gandhi's life up to his return to India following a 21-year period as a lawyer and civil-rights activist in

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. During this period in

Gandhi Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (; ; 2 October 1869 – 30 January 1948), popularly known as Mahatma Gandhi, was an Indian lawyer, anti-colonial nationalist Quote: "... marks Gandhi as a hybrid cosmopolitan figure who transformed ... anti- ...

experienced discrimination that all coloured people there faced, including the Indian community he became a part of. In response to the government's policies he developed ''

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'', a form of protest that translates loosely to "truth force". ''Gandhi Before India'' was first published by

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on 2 October 2013, Gandhi's birth anniversary. The book's title alludes to Guha's '' India After Gandhi'' (2007). ''Gandhi Before India'' was mostly well received by critics, both in the mainstream media and in scholarly journals.

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''Gandhi Indiaku munp'' (literally meaning Gandhi Before India) is the

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translation of this book. The Malayalam translation has been released by

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