Mahatma Gandhi
nonviolent power in action
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Author
Publication
1993 - Columbia University Press, New York, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
69,750 words, Guess
Page Count
279 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL1413337M
- ISBN-100231081189
- OCLC Control Number28148369
- OCLC Control Numbermahatmagandhinon00dalt
- Library of Congress Control Number93022634
and 2 more
- LibraryThing1602412
- Goodreads297608
Classifications
- DDC954.03/5/092
- LCCDS481.G3 D215 1993
Description
Analyzes the life of Mahatma Gandhi, including his ideas and his actions, examining critiques of the nonviolent leader and discussing his lasting influence; includes a glossary and a bibliography.
Description
Mahatma Gandhi's ideas and achievements rank preeminent among leaders of the twentieth century. Dennis Dalton's study of Gandhi's life and thought identifies the crucial link between his political philosophy and his activism and sets forth new ideas about Gandhi's inclusive style of politics. Dalton begins by tracing Gandhi's formative experiences in South Africa between 1893 and 1914 where his method of nonviolent resistance, or satyagraha, was born and melded with his concept of swaraj - personal and political liberation. After examining Gandhi's emergence as a national leader in India between 1919 and 1922, Dalton provides an indepth analysis of two of his signal triumphs: the 1930 civil disobedience campaign against the British and the 1947 Calcutta fast for Hindu-Muslim unity. Dalton brings fresh insight to these important years by culling information from unpublished sources and interviews with numerous participants, including those who joined Gandhi's Salt March to the sea. Dalton places Gandhi's ideas within the historical context of his interaction with the British government and with the religious communities of India. He pays particular attention to the role of religious faith in Gandhi's social reform, how his views on the caste system affected his political activism, and his debates with the Marxist theoretician M.N. Roy and the Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore. Dalton concludes with a stirring comparison of Gandhi to Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X and assesses the lasting importance of Gandhi's ideas. "His claim to uniqueness rests both on the originality of his thought and even more on his uncanny ability to put his theory into practice," writes Dalton. "Because key ideas like freedom and power so concerned him, the creative ways that he translated them into action remain exciting today, almost fifty years after his death."
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