Gandhi After Gandhi

ISBN-13: 9781032056821 / Miękka / 2023 / 162 str.

Opis

This book aims not only to offer new insights into Gandhi’s experience and legacy, but to prove how Gandhian values are relevant to the present and can provide explanations and solutions for present challenges.

Spis treści

Acknowledgments / List of Abbreviations / List of Contributors / Introduction  Part I: Gandhi, Laws and Civil Rights: Gandhian Legacy in Africa and United States / Gandhi and the culture of constitutionalism / Gandhi and Pan-Africanism (1919-1945) / Gandhi’s Legacy in South Africa through literature and arts / "Stride Toward Freedom": Martin Luther King, the Montgomery Bus Boycott and the Gandhian Lesson / Part II: Gandhi’s political views and experience in a historical perspective / The Mahatma and the Muslims. Gandhi’s role in making India’s partition inevitable / Partitions and Beyond: Gandhi’s Views on Palestine’s and India’s divides / Rethinking Gandhi’s Secularism: How Did Gandhi’s Brahmacarya Relate to His Last Political Vision? / Part III: Gandhian economy and grassroots experiences / Gandhi’s visionary critique of industrialisation and western civilisation in the light of India’s globalized economy / A Nayi, Nai Talim: Reinventing Gandhian Education for a new social order. A case study. / Appendix 1: Nayi, Nai Talim / Appendix 2: The Ragi Project in pictures / Index

O autorze

Marzia Casolari is an associate professor of Asian History at the University of Turin, Italy. She has done extensive research on Indian and South Asian contemporary history and politics and writes regularly on contemporary politics in India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. With Routledge she published the book In the Shadow of the Swastika: The Relationships Between Indian Radical Nationalism, Italian Fascism and Nazism.