Vinay Lal

Vinay Lal teaches history at the University of California, Los Angeles and blogs at www.vinaylal.wordpress.com. He can be reached at vlal@history.ucla.edu.

The Rhetoric of Relevance and the Graveyard of Gandhi

As the anniversary of Gandhi's death approaches, the tired old question of Gandhi's 'relevance' will be rehashed in the press. Once we are past

By Vinay Lal

/ 1 Feb 2010

Black and white photo of Mohandas Karamchad Gandhi with four other men in the background.