Historian and world-renowned Mahatma Gandhi expert Ramachandra Guha will be in Guelph on Saturday.
The event, The Unknown Gandhi: Beyond the Gandhi of the Film, takes place at Planet Bean at 2 Wyndham St. N. from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m.
The free event is being put on by the University of Guelph-based India Research Centre and hosted by Planet Bean and The Bookshelf.
"In his two volume biography of Gandhi, Guha successfully situates Gandhi’s early development in a global context as he encounters the world through travel, debate and religious exploration, and his rise as a moral anti-colonial voice in the goal of ending British rule in India. The volumes present new archival research, well rounded perspectives from friend and foe, and an at times intimate look at the Mahatma," said a news release on the event.
Guha’s India After Gandhi serves as an essential primer on the world’s largest democracy. It was named as the Times of India book of the decade.
