Gandhi: Naked Ambition

Jad Adams

Penguin Group, 2011 - India - 323 pages

Jad Adams offers a concise account of Gandhi's life: from his birth and upbringing in a small princely state in Gujarat during the high noon of the British Raj to his assassination at the hands of a Hindu extremist in 1948 only months after the birth of the independent India which he himself had done so much to bring about.

About the author

Jad Adams is an independent historian working as an author and television producer. His books include Kipling (2006) and The Dynasty: The Nehru-Gandhi Story (1997). He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and is currently a Visiting Research Fellow of the School of Advanced Study, University of London.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Gandhi: Naked Ambition
• Author: Jad Adams
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Penguin Group, 2011
• ISBN: 085738161X, 9780857381613
• Length: 323 pages