Rethinking Mahatma Gandhi: The Global Appraisal
Contents: 1. An Enlightened Anarchist: Gandhi’s Relationship to Anarchism/Talat Ahmed. 2. But, Who was Gandhi? Non-Violence: Who, How and Towards What?/Antonino Drago. 3. Mahatma Gandhi and Nationalism/Ashok Chousalkar. 4. Autobiography as History: A Study of Mahatma Gandhi’s ‘The Story of My Experiments with Truth’/Basavaraj Naikar. 5. Rudiments of Gandhian Economics: Exploring a Simple Virtuous Cycle/Priya Bhalla. 6. Democracy: Some Reflections from Mahatma Gandhi and John Stuart Mill/Medha Bisht. 7. Gandhian Encounter and Transformation: Study of Recent Indian Movies/Charu C. Mishra. 8. Three Formulations of Nationalism and the Question of Truth: Gandhi, Golwalkar and Tagore with Respect to the Notions of Swaraj and Swadeshi/Chetana Jagriti. 9. Problem of Untouchability: Understanding Socio-Political Relation between Gandhi and Ambedkar/Datta Bhagat. 10. M.K. Gandhi: A Votary of an Androgynous Self/Pooja Halyal. 11. Japan and Hind Swaraj/Akira Hayashi. 12. Gandhi and the Art of Asceticism/Indrani R. 13. Martin Luther King, Jr.: An African-American Gandhi/Ramin Jahanbegloo. 14. Gandhi and Women Leadership in India: Past and Present/Siby K. Joseph. 15. Relevance of Gandhian Ideas in an Era of Trust Deficit/Neha Kapoor. 16. Social Facets of Mahatma Gandhi and Babasaheb Ambedkar: Some Reflections/S. Gurusamy and Jagan Karade. 17. Gandhi on the Role of Women in the National Movement /Nitika Ladda. 18. Gandhian Revolution: Recapturing Gandhi’s Role as the Leader of the Masses/M. Shanthi. 19. Gandhi’s Views on Village Development and its Contemporary Relevance/Suratha Kumar Malik. 20. Tracing the Genesis of Mulk Raj Anand’s Novel Untouchable in Gandhian Thought/Namita Nimbalkar. 21. Significance of Mahatma Gandhi’s Works in the Changing World/Peter Ruhe. 22. Remapping Social Justice: Following Gandhian Ways of Rational and Social Thinking/Prakash Pawar. 23. The Misunderstood Torchbearer: Investigating the Truth-Force of Gandhi/Surya Prakash Verma and Binod Mishra. 24. From Urban to Rural: The Gandhian Shift in Marathi Literary Culture/Sunil Sawant. 25. The Charisma of Gandhigiri in Business/Harivadan Shah. 26. Mahatma Gandhi and Fake News/Shaleen Kumar Singh. 27. Gandhi’s Inspiration to do Good: A Historical Transformation/Apara Tiwari. 28. Decolonization of Indian Mind: Gandhi and Other Philosophers/Sabita Tripathy. 29. Revisiting Village Swaraj: Gandhi’s Idea of Self-Rule/Jitendra Wasnik. 30. Debating the Idea(s) of a Nation: Gandhi, Ambedkar and Bhagat Singh/Vivek Sachdeva and Queeny Pradhan. 31. Mahatma Gandhi’s Views on True Civilization and Education: As Reflected in His Opus, Hind Swaraj/Suchitra Awasthi.
Gandhi was a colossal figure of Indian nationalism and renaissance. Therefore, rethinking Mahatma Gandhi with all forays of global appraisal tend to reflect many dimensions of Mahatma Gandhi's personality.
Rethinking Mahatma Gandhi: The Global Appraisal is an outcome of the book project commemorated to the life and works of Mahatma Gandhi on his 150th birth anniversary. It is an effort for revisiting Mahatma Gandhi's life and works and the resultant remapping of Gandhian discourse due to the global need to reassess Gandhism.
This collection exhibits a significant variety in the analytical skills and frameworks employed and demonstrate the incredible reach and breadth of Gandhi's significance. The contemporary concerns, reflected through these articles, result in a review of the already existing themes and pre-occupations and help to chart a path forward. The aim is to explore a diverse range of questions and applications relating to the thought and works of Gandhi in the contemporary global context.
The striking feature of this book is the global appraisal of the holistic body of Gandhian thought and discourse. The book is not only structured along the themes of Gandhian works but also circumvents the entire labyrinth of Gandhian world of thought appraised by the scholars around the world.
