Social And Political Thought Of Mahatma Gandhi
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Author | : Bidyut Chakrabarty |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780415360968 |
During his campaign against racism in South Africa, and his involvement in the Congress-led nationalist struggle against British colonial rule in India, Mahatma Gandhi developed a new form of political struggle based on the idea of satyagraha, or non-violent protest. He ushered in a new era of nationalism in India by articulating the nationalist protest in the language of non-violence, or ahisma, that galvanized the masses into action. Focusing on the principles of satyagraha and non-violence, and their evolution in the context of anti-imperial movements organized by Gandhi, this fascinating book looks at how these precepts underwent changes reflecting the ideological beliefs of the participants. Assessing Gandhi and his ideology, the text centres on the ways in which Gandhi took into account the views of other leading personalities of the era whilst articulating his theory of action. Concentrating on Gandhiâe(tm)s writings in Harijan, the weekly newspaper he founded, this volume provides a unique contextualized study of an iconic manâe(tm)s social and political ideas.
Author | : Bidyut Chakrabarty |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 234 |
Release | : 2008 |
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Author | : S. K. Biswal |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2012 |
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ISBN | : 9789381031773 |
Author | : Anthony J Parel |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 238 |
Release | : 2018-01-02 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0190867477 |
Notwithstanding his contributions to religion, nonviolence, civil rights, and civil disobedience, among other areas, Gandhi's most significant contribution is that as a political philosopher. While he is not often treated as such, Gandhi was, as Anthony J. Parel argues, a political philosopher sui generis, both in his philosophical method of constant self-criticism and his framework of philosophical analysis. Gandhi wrote daily on politics, but he did so as an activist; political philosophy was to him not just a way of understanding truths of political phenomena but was directly related to understanding those truths in action. If realized in action these truths would give rise to new political institutions, which in turn would create a corresponding peaceful political and social order. Parel dubs this order Pax Gandhiana. The main contention of Pax Gandhiana is that peace cannot be achieved by politics alone. Peace requires the confluence of the canonical ends of life: politics and economics (artha), ethics (dharma), forms of pleasure (kama), and the pursuit of spiritual transcendence (moksha). Modern political philosophy isolates politics from the other three ends, but Gandhi's originality, according to Parel, lies in the way that he brings all four together. In fact Gandhi's political philosophy is relevant not only to India but also to the rest of the world: it is a new type of sovereignty that harmonizes the interest of individual states with the community of states. Arguing against scholars who dispute a theoretical unity in Gandhi's writings, Parel suggests that Gandhi is the preeminent non-western political philosopher, and in this book he seeks to identify the conceptual framework of Gandhi's political philosophy, the Pax Gandhiana.
Author | : Raghavan Narasimhan Iyer |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1962 |
Genre | : Nonviolence |
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Author | : Raghavan Narasimhan Iyer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 708 |
Release | : 1962 |
Genre | : Nonviolence |
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Author | : Sumit Tondon |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 2011 |
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ISBN | : 9789380117416 |
Author | : A. K. S. Parihar |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Political ethics |
ISBN | : 9789383762057 |
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.
Author | : Raghavan Iyer |
Publisher | : New York : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 472 |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
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"In this book, first published by OUP USA in 1973, Professor Iyer elucidates the central concepts in the moral and political thought of Mahatma Gandhi, bringing out the subtlety, potency, and universal importance of his concepts of truth and non-violence, freedom and obligation, and his view of the relation between means and ends in politics." --