Views on Hindu Dharma by M.K. Gandhi

ISBN-13: 9781138095496 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 458 str.

Neerja A. Gupta

Opis

This compilation of Mahatma Gandhi’s views on Hindu Dharma is a systematically arranged compendium of his ideas on every aspect of India’s social & political life.
Gandhi’s views disseminated through many short essays in Harijan & other journals of his time on Sanatan Dharma, idol worship, compulsory teaching of Gita in schools, conversion, cow protection, varnashramas, untouchability & other aspects are presented here in his own words.
This volume is indispensable for scholars of Modern South Asian History, Gandhian Thought, Colonialism and Religious Studies.
Please note: Taylor & Francis does not sell or distribute the Hardback in India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka

Spis treści

PART I: GOD, PART II: HINDUISM PART III: VARNA & DHARMA, PART IV: THE GITA, PART V: TEMPLE-WORSHIP, PART VI: RAMANAMA, PART VII: RELIGIOUS EDUCATION, PART VIII: CONVERSION, PART IX: EQUALITY OF RELIGIONS, PART X: PRAYER, PART XI: FASTING AND ; PURIFICATION, PART XII: COW PROTECTION, PART XIII: VEGETERIANISM, PART XIV: NON-VIOLENCE, PART XV: UNTOUCHABILITY, PART XVI: BRAHMANA – ; NON-BRAHMANA, PART XVII: TRUTH AND; ASHRAM VOWS, PART XVIII: CHILD MARRIAGE, PART XIX: MARRIAGE AND ; WIDOWHOOD, PART XX: SONS AND DAUGHTERS, PART XXI: MISCELLANEOUS

O autorze

Neerja Arun Gupta is the Principal of Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan’s Sheth R.A.P.G. College of Arts and Commerce, Ahmedabad, and Syndicate Member of Gujarat University, Ahmedabad. She is also International Academic Chair for Global Organization of People of Indian Origin, U.S.A. as well as the Director of the Study Abroad Programme & Diaspora and Migration Research Center at Gujarat University, Ahmedabad.