Rajmohan Gandhi has been writing widely on
various aspects of Independence movement, pak affairs etc.He has written
biographies of both of his grandfathers Mahatma Gandhi and Rajaji. He is the
son of Devadas Gandhi.
This book
"Understanding the Founding Fathers: An Enquiry into the Indian Republic's
Beginnings" was authored by
him more as a rejoinder to two popular authors viz Swami
Sachidanand of Gujarat, a critic of
Gandhi and to prof Perry Anderson for his book The Indian Ideology .
Swami is less popular in our area and his
writings are less known. But Prof Perry Anderson is known to left circle
throughout the world by his write ups thro NLR- New Left Review. His book
Indian Ideology provoked debates and discussion in the last 3 to 4 years. This book was
introduced to me by RAVI (Rathna Ravi Our JAO,TU Activist, Translator of many
good works) last year or so. I read it but not impressed much observing a kind of bias it shown. Com D Gnanaiah( a
living giant of P&T movement and a long associate of com Gupta, a Marxian scholar ) asked Ravi to
translate it, I was told.
Rajmohan Gandhi has given his rebuttal to Perry
by bringing some facts from authenticated sources, where perry fails to prove
adequately. Perry has given his negative appraisal of Gandhi,Nehru.. positively
appreciated the role of Jinnah, Nethaji and Dr Ambedkar. Rajmohan tried his
best to disprove some of his negative appraisals in this book. One should read
both Perry's Indian Ideology as well as Rajmohan's An Enquiry into Indian
Republic's Beginning to get fair impression about our great Leaders of Independent
movement of India.
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