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, 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 he developed Satyagraha, a form of protest that translates loosely to "truth force".

Gandhi Before India was mostly well received by critics, both in the mainstream media and in scholarly journals.

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