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The legacy of the First World War and Gandhi's early years

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4.34.7K Ratings

🗓️ 5 December 2013

⏱️ 55 minutes

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David Reynolds explains how the First World War shaped the 20th century, while Ramachandra Guha considers Mahatma Gandhi's formative years Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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It's a Tommy's eye view of the war.

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That was David Reynolds, author of a new book on the First World War.

0:56.2

Paradoxically and ironically, it's in South Africa and in London that Gandhi becomes an Indian,

1:01.4

rather than simply somewhat imprisoned in the conventions of his own narrow caste community.

1:06.8

And that was Ramachandra Guha, talking about Mahatma Gandhi.

1:21.0

Music And that was Ramachandra Guha, talking about Mahatma Gandhi. Hello and welcome to the History Extra podcast. My name is Rob Atar and I'm the editor of BBC History Magazine, which is the UK's

1:30.7

best-selling history magazine. You can find it in all good newsagents and on subscription.

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See History Extra.com forward slash subscribe hyphen today for subscription deals. We also have digital editions available for the iPad,

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the Kindle, the Kindle Fire, Google Play and Zinio. The details of these formats, head to

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History Extra.com forward slash digital. Professor David Reynolds is a historian based at the University of Cambridge. He has written

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widely on 20th century international history, and for his latest book, The Long Shadow,

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