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Tagore & Gandhi: Walking Alone, Walking Together

Bibek Debroy
Tagore & Gandhi: Walking Alone, Walking Together
Author: Rudrangshu Mukherjee
Publisher: Aleph Book Company
Pages: (xxii) +186 Price: Rs 699

Rudrangshu Mukherjee may have drifted into serious journalism (with The Telegraph) for a bit, but at heart, he has always been a historian and academic. Now Chancellor and Professor of History at Ashoka University, Rudrangshu is mostly known for research and books centred on 1857.  Plus, he has been interested in Jawaharlal Nehru and this book, on Tagore and Gandhi, reminded me a bit of his earlier book (2014) on Jawaharlal Nehru and Subhas Chandra Bose. That book was sub-titled Parallel Lives and this

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