Talat Ahmed is Lecturer in South Asian History at the University of Edinburgh. She is a Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society and the author of Mohandas Gandhi: Experiments in Civil Disobedience (Pluto, 2018) and of a study of the All-India Progressive Writers' Association entitled Literature and Politics in the Age of Nationalism: The Progressive Episode in South Asia, 1932-56 (Routledge, 2009).

Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Glossary
Maps
Introduction
1. Early Life: 1869-93
2. South Africa and the Birth of Satyagraha: 1893-1915
3. The Champion of the Oppressed Returns: 1915-19
4. Nationalist Leader: 1919-29
5. Global Icon: 1929-39
6. Fascism, War, Independence and Partition: 1939-48
Conclusion: Assassination and Legacy
Notes
Index