A biography of a grandfather

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Extracted from text ... REVIEW ARTICLE A BIOGRAPHY OF A GRANDFATHER Gandhi's andhi's Prisoner risoner? T ? The life of he Gandhi's son, andhi's Manilal anilal Uma ma Dhupelia- hupelia-Mesthrie esthrie Antony Copley Cape Town: Kwela Books, 2004, 419 pp. ISBN 0-7957-0176-4 African neighbours of Phoenix settlement named the bespectacled Manilal Gandhi, a great walker in the area, Mehomane, or `four-eyes'. We should be grateful to the author for writing this biography of her grandfather. She herself was born shortly after his death in 1956 and throughout her childhood regularly visited Phoenix. When the Kasturba Bhavan, the family home and the Kasturba Gandhi ..