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{{Infobox book<br />
| name = Gandhi Before India<br />
| image = Gandhi Before India.jpg<br />
| caption = First edition cover<br />
| author = [[Ramachandra Guha]]<br />
| country = India<br />
| subject = Biography<br />
| published = 2 October 2013 ([[Penguin India]])<br />
| pages = 688<br />
| isbn = 9780670083879<br />
}}<br />
'''''Gandhi Before India''''' is a 2013 book by the Indian historian [[Ramachandra Guha]], the first part of a planned two-volume biography of [[Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi]]. The book deals with Gandhi's life up to his return to India following a 21-year period as a lawyer and civil-rights activist in [[South Africa]]. During this period in [[South Africa]], [[Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi|Gandhi]] experienced discrimination that all coloured people there faced, including the Indian community he became a part of. In response to the government's policies developed ''[[Satyagraha]]'', a form of protest that translates loosely to "truth force".<ref>{{cite book |last1=Guha |first1=Ramchandra |title=Gandhi before India |date=5 April 2014 |publisher=Knopf; F |isbn=9780385532297}}</ref><br />
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''Gandhi Before India'' was first published by [[Penguin India]] on 2 October 2013, [[Gandhi Jayanthi|Gandhi's birth anniversary]]. The book's title alludes to Guha's ''[[India After Gandhi]]'' (2007). ''Gandhi Before India'' was mostly well received by critics, both in the mainstream media and in scholarly journals.<ref name="off">{{cite web |title=About the author - books written |url=http://ramachandraguha.in/about-the-author |website=www.ramachandraguha.in |publisher=Ramchandra Guha (official website) |accessdate=16 November 2018}}</ref><br />
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==Translations==<br />
''Gandhi Indiaku munp'' (literally meaning Gandhi Before India) is the [[Malayalam-language|Malayalam]] translation of this book. The Malayalam translation has been released by [[DC Books]]. {{ISBN|9789353902520}}<ref name="dcbooks">{{cite web |title=You are being redirected... |url=https://dcbookstore.com/books/gandhi-indiakku-munpu |website=dcbookstore.com}}</ref><br />
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==See also==<br />
* ''[[Gandhi: The Years That Changed the World]]'', Guha's 2018 sequel<br />
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==References==<br />
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==External links==<br />
*[http://www.penguinbooksindia.com/en/content/gandhi-india ''Gandhi Before India''] at [[Penguin India]]<br />
*[http://www.randomhouse.com/book/196333/gandhi-before-india-by-ramachandra-guha ''Gandhi Before India''] at [[Random House]]<br />
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