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This polemical political study takes direct aim at Gandhi, casting him as the chief obstacle to Indian Home Rule and a dangerous force in the nationalist movement. Drawing on speeches, reports, and documentary evidence, it warns that non-co-operation, emotional agitation, and alliances forged around the Punjab and Khilafat grievances are steering India away from constitutional progress and toward unrest. At its core is a clash between two visions of freedom: Gandhi's moral, ascetic Swaraj and the author's insistence on practical governance and modern development. Gandhi is examined through his own words, including his rejection of conventional nationalism and his distrust of railways, lawyers, doctors, machinery, Parliament, and Western education. The book argues that his ideal of "Self Rule" would weaken institutions, impoverish society, and replace reform with impractical self-denial. It also traces his later moderation toward Parliamentary Swaraj, while suggesting that his embrace of non-co-operation and mass resistance revived the very radicalism he had seemed to abandon. The narrative broadens into the Khilafat agitation, civil disobedience, and official crackdowns, presenting the government's response as necessary to restore order amid intimidation, desertion, and rising violence. This edition has been fully restored with modern typesetting, custom cover design.