Sam Dalrymple

Rejecting the Raj: Gandhi’s acolytes in the West

Ramachandra Guha discovers a forgotten chapter of Indian history concerning a group of largely British renegades who devoted themselves to Gandhi’s cause

Mira and Gandhi on a visit to Villeneuve in 1941. [Alamy]
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