A BEND IN THE GANGES

Hamish Hamilton, London, 1964, 1^st ed, 2^nd impression.  Hard cover, 381 pages including Glossary.  Very good; green boards with gilt lettering on spine; light corner wear, lower spine end bumped with a touch of fading; binding sound.  Dust jacket with price intact shows some edge and cover wear, short edge tears and very small losses at lower spine end and corners; some age-toning and rubs.  Pencil erasure on first page; remainder of interior clean and unmarked.  "Gandhi himself was never sure that ordinary men and women were sufficiently civilized for the practice of true non-violence.  What actually happened in India must have come as a great shock to him.  Ironically, when freedom came, it brought on a kind of  havoc rarely seen even in war; twelve million people were rendered homeless, three hundred thousand were slaughtered, more than a hundred thousand women were abducted, raped, mutilated.  How the bottle-up violence of ordinary men and women came to the surface at the very moment of victory is the theme of this novel."  (from front flap)