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Creating Churchill: NEMESIS

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Exploring Winston Churchill’s spiky relationship with the Indian nationalist, Mohandas Gandhi - a relationship that shows up some of Churchill’s blind spots and arguably puts him on the ’wrong side’ of history. Churchill notoriously described Gandhi in 1931 as ‘a seditious Middle Temple lawyer, now posing as a fakir of a well-known type in the East, striding half naked up the steps of the Vice Regal palace’. Why was Gandhi such a bugbear for him?

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