Includes bibliography and index.

Translated from French by Claude Markovits.

I. Perceptions of Gandhi
1 Images of Gandhi
Gandhian Iconography -- Gandhi and the West: The Saint and His Critiques -- Gandhi's Image in France -- Gandhi on the Screen: Consecration of the Icon -- Gandhi in Indian Eyes: Diversity of Perceptions and Practices.

2 The Impossible Biography of Mohandas K. Gandhi
Gandhi's Biographers -- Gandhi and the Limitations of Biography as a Genre -- Gandhi as His Own Biographer: The Autobiography

3 Gandhi's Posthumous Life
Gandhi in India After 1948: A Disputed Legacy -- Gandhism and Its Interpreters -- Gandhi and Political Philosophy -- Gandhi, Political Ecology, and Alternative Movements

II. Gandhi in History
4 Birth of a Leader
Private Life, Public Life -- The Contribution of South Africa -- The Emergence of a National Leader in 1915-1920 -- The Transformation of Gandhi: Towards a New Political Idiom

5 Gandhi and Indian Independence
Gandhi and the End of Fear -- Gandhi as an Organizer -- Gandhi's Role in Anti-British Campaigns, 1920-1942

6 Gandhi and Indian Society: The Reformer and
His Legacy
Gandhi and the Dignity of Manual Labour -- Gandhi and the Reconstruction of the Indian Village -- Gandhi and the Fight for the Abolition of Untouchability

7 Gandhi in the Time-frame of Indian History
Between Victorian Intellectual and Neo-traditionalist Hindu -- Gandhi and Bourgeois Nationalism -- The Nature of Gandhi's Charisma -- Gandhi and the Expectations of the Peasantry

8 Gandhi and Non-violence
Non-violent Rraistance: Gandhi's Contribution -- From Satyagraha to Non-violence: A Gandhian Itinerary -- Nationalism and Non-violence in India in Gandhi's Lifetime: Myth and Reality -- Gandhi and the Pacifists -- The Exemplary Nature of Gandhian Non-violence