Revisiting Gandhi

Contents: Preface. 1. Liberalism: thrust for freedom/Himanshu Bourai. 2. Gandhi\'s ideas on ideal society and its\' law/Bakhyt Kadyrova. 3. Gandhi and secularisation of society/K.D. Gangarade. 4. National building and knowledge society/Shivraj B. Nakade. 5. Education crisis and Gandhian alternative/Ram Binod Singh. 6. Present educational crisis and Gandhian solution/Devi Narayan Singh. 7. Present educational reform: some issues and reflactions in Gandhian perspective/Lakshmeshwer Prasad Singh. 8. Sociology of education: a Gandhian approach/Alakh Niranjan Singh. 9. Moral contents in Gandhijee\'s vision of education/Surendra Prasad Gain. 10. Present educational crisis and Gandhian approach/Dayanidhi Prasad Roy. 11. Indian education scenario and Gandhian vision/Pushpa Kumari. 12. Democracy in India and criminalisation of politics: a solution in Gandhian perspective/Prabhkar Singh. 13. Violence in democracy: an Indian experience/Sudhira Chandra Jena. Bibliography.

"No ideology has been able to solve the contemporary human problems, which is a byproduct of liberalisation, privatisation and globalisation. We are in search of an alternative, which must be pro-poor, pro-environment, and pro-humanity. The Gandhian alternative can provide solutions to contemporary problems such as unemployment, unequal distribution of wealth, violation of human rights, terrorism, fundamentalism, exploitation, oppression, and poverty, if implemented in totality. Gandhian thought and action are directly or indirectly echoed in contemporary debates not only in India but also throughout the globe. In this present book an attempt has been made to rediscover, reinterpret and revisit Gandhi and his thought. A useful book for researchers, policy makers and students of Gandhian thought." (jacket)