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'Gandhi: The Years That Changed the World' establishes how the fighter for Indian independence's reputation was earned

Time Magazine made him Man of the Year in 1930. Winston Churchill described him as a “malignant subversive fanatic.” And, without hyperbole, American novelist Mary McCarthy compared his murder to the Crucifixion. 

That Mohandas K. Gandhi ranks among history’s most profoundly important leaders is taken as a given. But what establishesis not just why the fighter for Indian independence deserves his reputation, but also how that reputation was earned: march by march,

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