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This is an amazing study of Gandhi and which shows how treansnational, planetary forces from the Caribbean, South Africa and India were brought to bear on his concept of Indianness. His reading of Thoreau, Ruskin and Tolstoy helped him from his conception of India as frugal, vegetarian, spiritual, adhering to ahimsa and satyagraha and a style of anti-modernism which would lead to a very modern struggles of Zulu in Africa and blacks in Guyana on the other hand. Call them coolie, subaltern or proletraian, Gandhi`s construction of the idea of `India` arose in relation to, but not identity with, the workers of the barracks, the cane field and the gold mine who produce in war, drugs and money the defining experiences of modernity. From Kathiawar Sailing the high Seas Deconstructing the Coolie Plotting a Diasporic Nation Local Cosmopolitan and Modern Anti-Modern: Hind Swaraj and Satyagraha in South Africa The Tamil Women of the Transvaal Gandhi and Atlantic Modernity `Prophet in Homespun`: Deenabandhu C. F. Andrews Diasporic Gandhi