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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. This sensitivity grew from the long relationship between the two. At one point, Pyarelal agonizes, “I watched day after day the wan, sad look on that pinched face, bespeaking an inner anguish that was frightening to behold.”
The present work represents an attempt by one who had the opportunity at first hand the insight to represent the events correctly—Pyarelal, secretary to Gandhi. The Last Phase deals with the last 21 months of Gandhiji’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. But the most heartrending communal divide across the subcontinent and Mahatma Gandhi’s valiant, single-handed struggle. Pyarelal says: “During those fateful days, like a Titan he rushed from one danger spot to another to prop up the crumbling heavens.” The author has attempted to condense the epic story of those days in 1946–47.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.
ISBN: 8188204870
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