The Gandhian Moment
Title | The Gandhian Moment PDF eBook |
Author | Ramin Jahanbegloo |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | 209 |
Release | 2013-03-19 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0674074858 |
The father of Indian independence, Gandhi was also a political theorist who challenged mainstream ideas. Sovereignty, he said, depends on the consent of citizens willing to challenge the state nonviolently when it acts immorally. The culmination of the inner struggle to recognize one’s duty to act is the ultimate “Gandhian moment.”
Conquest of Violence
Title | Conquest of Violence PDF eBook |
Author | Joan Valerie Bondurant |
Publisher | Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | 295 |
Release | 2020-09-01 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0691218048 |
When Mahatma Gandhi died in 1948 by an assassin's bullet, the most potent legacy he left to the world was the technique of satyagraha (literally, holding on to the Truth). His "experiments with Truth" were far from complete at the time of his death, but he had developed a new technique for effecting social and political change through the constructive conduct of conflict: Gandhian satyagraha had become eminently more than "passive resistance" or "civil disobedience." By relating what Gandhi said to what he did and by examining instances of satyagraha led by others, this book abstracts from the Indian experiments those essential elements that constitute the Gandhian technique. It explores, in terms familiar to the Western reader, its distinguishing characteristics and its far-reaching implications for social and political philosophy.
Mahatma Gandhi and His Apostles
Title | Mahatma Gandhi and His Apostles PDF eBook |
Author | Ved Mehta |
Publisher | Penguin UK |
Total Pages | 280 |
Release | 2021-02-04 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 024150502X |
Ved Mehta's brilliant Mahatma Gandhi and his Apostles provides an unparalleled portrait of the man who lead India out of its colonial past and into its modern form. Travelling all over India and the rest of the world, Mehta gives a nuanced and complex, yet vividly alive, portrait of Gandhi and of those men and women who were inspired by his actions.
Gandhi’s Search for the Perfect Diet
Title | Gandhi’s Search for the Perfect Diet PDF eBook |
Author | Nico Slate |
Publisher | University of Washington Press |
Total Pages | 264 |
Release | 2019-02-28 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0295744979 |
Mahatma Gandhi redefined nutrition as a holistic approach to building a more just world. What he chose to eat was intimately tied to his beliefs. His key values of nonviolence, religious tolerance, and rural sustainability developed in coordination with his dietary experiments. His repudiation of sugar, chocolate, and salt expressed his opposition to economies based on slavery, indentured labor, and imperialism. Gandhi’s Search for the Perfect Diet sheds new light on important periods in Gandhi’s life as they relate to his developing food ethic: his student years in London, his politicization as a young lawyer in South Africa, the 1930 Salt March challenging British colonialism, and his fasting as a means of self-purification and social protest during India’s struggle for independence. What became the pillars of Gandhi’s diet—vegetarianism, limiting salt and sweets, avoiding processed food, and fasting—anticipated many of the debates in twenty-first-century food studies, and presaged the necessity of building healthier and more equitable food systems.
Encyclopaedia Britannica
Title | Encyclopaedia Britannica PDF eBook |
Author | Hugh Chisholm |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 1090 |
Release | 1910 |
Genre | Encyclopedias and dictionaries |
ISBN |
This eleventh edition was developed during the encyclopaedia's transition from a British to an American publication. Some of its articles were written by the best-known scholars of the time and it is considered to be a landmark encyclopaedia for scholarship and literary style.
Mahatma Gandhi
Title | Mahatma Gandhi PDF eBook |
Author | Dennis Dalton |
Publisher | Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | 353 |
Release | 2012-02-21 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0231530390 |
Dennis Dalton's classic account of Gandhi's political and intellectual development focuses on the leader's two signal triumphs: the civil disobedience movement (or salt satyagraha) of 1930 and the Calcutta fast of 1947. Dalton clearly demonstrates how Gandhi's lifelong career in national politics gave him the opportunity to develop and refine his ideals. He then concludes with a comparison of Gandhi's methods and the strategies of Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X, drawing a fascinating juxtaposition that enriches the biography of all three figures and asserts Gandhi's relevance to the study of race and political leadership in America. Dalton situates Gandhi within the "clash of civilizations" debate, identifying the implications of his work on continuing nonviolent protests. He also extensively reviews Gandhian studies and adds a detailed chronology of events in Gandhi's life.
Gandhi on Christianity
Title | Gandhi on Christianity PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Ellsberg |
Publisher | Orbis Books |
Total Pages | 124 |
Release | 2013-12-03 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1608334600 |
Gandhi is widely revered as one of the great moral prophets of the twentieth century. This book focuses on a less well-known area of his interest: his engagement with Jesus and Christianity. As a faithful Hindu, he was unwilling to accept Christian dogma, but in Jesus he recognized and revered one of history's great prophets of nonviolence.