This is the hitherto-untold story of Gandhi's greatest friend and benefactor, Dr Pranjivan Mehta (1864 –1932). It was to Mehta that Gandhi first revealed his newly-found philosophy of life in a London hotel in ...
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'Pranjivan Mehta was to Mohandas Gandhi what Friedrich Engels was to Karl Marx: at once a disciple and a patron, who saw, very early, that the friend of his youth had the makings of the heroic, world-transforming figure he was to later become.'
Ramchandra Guha,
Gandhi Before India (2013), pg420.
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