The Common Cause

The Common Cause
Author: Leela Gandhi
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 253
Release: 2014-03-19
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 022602007X

Europeans and Americans tend to hold the opinion that democracy is a uniquely Western inheritance, but in The Common Cause, Leela Gandhi recovers stories of an alternate version, describing a transnational history of democracy in the first half of the twentieth century through the lens of ethics in the broad sense of disciplined self-fashioning. Gandhi identifies a shared culture of perfectionism across imperialism, fascism, and liberalism—an ethic that excluded the ordinary and unexceptional. But, she also illuminates an ethic of moral imperfectionism, a set of anticolonial, antifascist practices devoted to ordinariness and abnegation that ranged from doomed mutinies in the Indian military to Mahatma Gandhi’s spiritual discipline. Reframing the way we think about some of the most consequential political events of the era, Gandhi presents moral imperfectionism as the lost tradition of global democratic thought and offers it to us as a key to democracy’s future. In doing so, she defends democracy as a shared art of living on the other side of perfection and mounts a postcolonial appeal for an ethics of becoming common.

Gandhian Theory of Social Reconstruction

Gandhian Theory of Social Reconstruction
Author: Parmeshwari Dayal
Publisher: Atlantic Publishers & Dist
Total Pages: 428
Release: 2006
Genre: Nonviolence
ISBN: 9788126906031

Gandhian Thought Can Be Evaluated In Two Perspectives. One Is What Gandhi Basically Stands For. He Distrusted Industrialism And Had The Courage To Decry Industrialization With Mass Production Even When It Was At Its Peak. In That Spirit Gandhian View Of Human Society Is An Alternative To Modern Industrial Society.In The Other Perspective, Gandhian Thought Is Evaluated In Terms Of The Needs And Requirements Of The Existing Society And An Attempt Is Made To Reinterpret It To Suit Those Requirements. In This Endeavour, The Basic Spirit Of Gandhian Ideals, Very Often, Is Sacrificed Or Compromised.The Present Book Gandhian Theory Of Social Reconstruction Analyses Gandhian Thought In The First Perspective And Thereby Provides A Rational And Viable Framework Of Post-Industrial Human Society After Gandhian Ideals.It First Establishes That There Is The Need To Find An Alternative To Industrial Society And That The Alternative Could Be Based On Spirituality. The Concept Of Spirituality Is Discussed Here In Secular And Sociological Terms Avoiding All Jargons Of Various Religions And Philosophy.Further, The Book Propounds A New Unconventional Classification Of Human Motivation Encompassing The Entire Gamut Of Motivational Urge.It Also Introduces The Concept Of Soul Force As A New Dimension To The Realms Of Theory And Practice Of Social Reconstruction. This Is Based On The Awakening Of The Soul To Its Potential Or Force That Gives Strength To The Individual At Least To Uphold One S Dignity And Self-Respect Which Are Being Violated In The Present Society Whether Of The West Or Of The East. For Creating And Sustaining Soul Force, This Theory Provides Appropriate Instruments And Methods.The Book Also Outlines The Constitution Of A Non-Violent Society Incorporating Such Ingredients As May Lead To The Emergence Of A Non-Violent And Spiritual Social Order. The Book Then Goes On To Discuss The Method Of Non-Violent Action In The Manner Of A Process As A Gandhian Technique For Conflict Resolution, Fighting Against Social Injustice And Exploitation And Rebuilding The New Society.One May Ridicule The Theory As Utopian. But The Goals Should Always Be Set On The Highest Side Even Though They May Never Be Realized In Their Completeness. One Should Constantly Try To Reach Them As High As Possible To The Best Of One S Capacity. The Goals Should Never Be Set On The Lower Level.This Book Opens Up Many New Vistas For Research And Joins The Current Debate In Political And Economic Fields On Social Reconstruction Going On Since The Second World War And More So After The Collapse Of Communism In Soviet Russia And The 9/11 Events That Have Agitated The Human Conscience.

Gandhian Thought

Gandhian Thought
Author: Ravindra Kumar
Publisher: Gyan Publishing House
Total Pages: 136
Release: 2008
Genre: Statesmen
ISBN: 9788178356440

If there is only one book about Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi that you need to read today, make Gandhian Thought, New World, New Dimensions by Ravindra Kumar be the book. There are many Gandhian scholars around the world but Kumar is peerless. What sets Kumar apart from the other scholars is that like Gandhi he is Indian, and he understands the culture and customs behind the teachings and the philosophy. One can never study Gandhi and try to separate him from his ethnology. He is a noteworthy researcher. Kumar s interpretation of Gandhi and his ideas is outstanding. Kumar, an educator who has authored over a hundred books, has emerged as one of the great thinkers of our time, and a leading Gandhian scholar. In this book he articulates on Satyagraha, the Sustainable Culture of Peace and how the Gandhian philosophy applies in current international conflicts, Sudan, Myanmar, Iraq, Iran, and outer countries. The book also addresses the fundamental question, is Gandhi relevant today? This book should be a required reading for all individuals who are interested in peace and the Gandhian theory. This book is a necessary read.

The Techno-Gandhian Philosophy: Theory and Practice

The Techno-Gandhian Philosophy: Theory and Practice
Author: Balamurali Balaji
Publisher: CIT-GPNP
Total Pages: 100
Release:
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Description The Techno-Gandhian Philosophy, 4th edition contains both theory and practice. Includes innovative Techno-Gandhian Process Model ( TGP Model) model flowcharts and brief idea about how socio-political roles and responsibilities achieved by performing actions in five-step activities.

Gandhian Political Economy

Gandhian Political Economy
Author: B. N. Ghosh
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Total Pages: 296
Release: 2007
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780754646815

This book identifies and analyses the political economy elements in Gandhi's thought; evaluating the spiritual and ontological basis of Gandhian political economy, and examining the contemporary relevance of Gandhian political economy both in terms of alternative types of heterodox political economy and in terms of policy. The book presents a groundbreaking step in the creation of a new 'Gandhian' political economy.

Gandhi in Political Theory

Gandhi in Political Theory
Author: Anuradha Veeravalli
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 275
Release: 2016-04-15
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1317130987

Can Gandhi be considered a systematic thinker? While the significance of Gandhi’s thought and life to our times is undeniable it is widely assumed that he did not serve any discipline and cannot be considered a systematic thinker. Despite an overwhelming body of scholarship and literature on his life and thought the presuppositions of Gandhi’s experiments, the systematic nature of his intervention in modern political theory and his method have not previously received sustained attention. Addressing this lacuna, the book contends that Gandhi’s critique of modern civilization, the presuppositions of post-Enlightenment political theory and their epistemological and metaphysical foundations is both comprehensive and systematic. Gandhi’s experiments with truth in the political arena during the Indian Independence movement are studied from the point of view of his conscious engagement with method and theory rather than merely as a personal creed, spiritual position or moral commitment. The author shows how Gandhi’s experiments are illustrative of his theoretical position, and how they form the basis of his opposition to the foundations of modern western political theory and the presuppositions of the modern nation state besides envisioning the foundations of an alternative modernity for India, and by its example, for the world.

Gandhi on Non-Violence

Gandhi on Non-Violence
Author: Mahatma Gandhi
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Total Pages: 132
Release: 1965
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780811216869

Contains selected texts from the writings of Mahatma Gandhi in which he expressed his philosophy of non-violence and non-violent action, and includes an introductory essay by editor Thomas Merton.

Gandhi's Thought and Liberal Democracy

Gandhi's Thought and Liberal Democracy
Author: Sanjay Lal
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 135
Release: 2019-03-13
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1498586538

With an intense focus on both the depth and practicality of Mahatma Gandhi’s political and religious thought this book reveals the valuable insights Gandhi offers to anyone concerned about the prospects of liberalism in the contemporary world. Gandhi’s Religious Thought and Liberal Democracy makes the case that for Gandhi, in stark contrast to commonly accepted liberal orthodoxy, religion is indispensable to the public life, and indeed the official activity, of any genuinely liberal society. Gandhi scholars, political theorists, and activist members of a lay audience alike will all find much to digest, comment upon, and be motivated by in this work.