Going to Wipe Their Tears

9781890206260

1890206261

The Last Phase by Pyarelal Nayar covers the last phase of Mahatma Gandhi's life in which the results of all the experiments that he carried out throughout his career were put through their severest and final test. Pyarelal was acutely aware of Gandhi's state of mind. Indeed, of all Gandhi's associates, Pyarelal is the most sensitive and articulate in describing these moods. The Last Phase deals with the last 21 months of Gandhi's life beginning with his release from detention in the Aga Khan's palace in May 1944. It described in fair detail the political developments of those years resulting from the British government's intention to relinquish power in India. Pyarelal says: "During those fateful days, like a Titan he rushed from one danger spot to another to prop up the crumbling heavens." The last volume of Pyarelal's biography of Gandhi has been condensed by Meghani into an easy-to-read, lucid account to make it more accessible to the general reader.