The book is a definitive account of Gandhi’s major critics. It presents a detailed and comprehensive account of each critic, assesses their criticisms of Gandhi and underlines the significance and achievements of Gandhi in the backdrop of the critiques - from contemporaries like the Nehrus, Tagore, Churchill, Jinnah, Periyar, Ambedkar, Savarkar, Subhas, the Marxists (till 1947 and post-independence), Saha, Visvesvaraya to later critics like Orwell, Malcolm X, Gramsci, Alinsky, Mandela, King and Russell.

The volume will be of immense importance to scholars and students of undergraduate and post graduate courses in political science and South Asian studies. It will also be of interest to general readers interested in history and politics.

Subrata Mukherjee is a former (retired) professor in the Department of Political Science, University of Delhi. He received the Fulbright-Hays grant to pursue his PhD from the Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA from 1972-76 and was the nodal person of the University Grants Commission’s Committee on Development of Curriculum for Political Science and Public Administration in 2001. He is also on the editorial board of Korea Observer and his published works are The Political Ideas of Rabindranath Tagore: Reflections of a Public Intellectual (2020, New Delhi).

Sushila Ramaswamy taught in the Department of Political Science, Jesus and Mary College (JMC), University of Delhi, Delhi. She was a recipient of the Fulbright Postdoctoral fellowship at Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA (1991-92), and a British council grant, University of Kent, Canterbury UK (1994) and was a teaching fellow at the National University of Singapore, Singapore in 1996. She received the University Grants Commission’s Research Award for three years (2004-07). She has authored the following books Women in Political Thought: The Quest for Gender Equality and Beyond (2018, Hyderabad) and Political Theory: Ideas and Concepts (2003 & 2014, New Delhi)