As for the Mahatma’s experiments in brahmacharya with Manu, his own grand-niece, Guha said he accepted he found the whole affair rather strange.

As Gandhi slept naked with her, in an attempt to discover whether or not he was still sexually aroused, Hindu-Muslim riots exploded around them in Noakhali, in former East Bengal.

One of the reasons for the sexual experimentation was because Gandhi felt, according to Guha, that the violence was somehow his fault.

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