Now, i'm all for suggesting hero worship to rigorous scrutiny and many worthy historians have taken a very critical eye to gandhi in recent years. all the same, we ought not to forget that gandhi was genuinely a world historical figure, one who pioneered a strategy of non-violence and transformed the struggle for independence into a grassroots-based mass movement that inspired people everywhere outside of india from martin luther king and mohammed ali, nelson mandela and barack obama. this is the man who took on the greatest empire in the world non-violently and defeated it. in a country repre...