MixedTimes Literary Supplement (UK)Gandhi forms the connecting link between these diverse personal narratives ... One might question whether these individuals were truly \'renegades\', in the sense of traitors betraying cause and country, rather than individuals who cherished the ideals of liberty and, more speculatively, equality in their home nation and so regarded the want of such values and aspirations in India as intolerable. Guha might also be faulted for insufficiently addressing the power of whiteness ... under the British, but even more problematically, in post-independence India. Guha, however, sees something special in the willingness of these disparate individuals to live their adult lives in and for India ... This for him, controversially, was a step beyond the self-sacrificing patriotism of Indians.
