Reflections on Mahatma Gandhi: The Global Perspectives

Contents: 1. Gandhian Approach: A Pathway to Resolve the Contradictions of Globalization/Devarchan Banerjee. 2. Religion as a Homespun Shawl to the Needy: Re-visiting Moral, Spiritual, and the Humanitarian Dimension of Religion from a Bhakti-centric Perspective of the Mahatma/Archana Barua. 3. Basaveswara and Mahatma Gandhi: A Comparative Study of their Ideas/Basavaraj Naikar. 4. Satyagraha and the Ethics of Responsibility/Terry Beitzel. 5. Ahimsa and Gandhian Ecology: A Multicultural Paradigm of Non-violence Towards Nature/Tom Berendt. 6. Gandhi’s Self-purification and Poorna Swaraj/Biplove Kumar. 7. The Cinematic Portrayal of the Apprenticeship of ‘Mahatma’ in South Africa in Shyam Benegal’s The Making of the Mahatma/Chandrakant Langare. 8. The Gandhian Idea of Conflict Transformation: Examining the Relevance to the United Nations’ Engagement/Yeshi Choedon. 9. Incorporating Ahimsa into India’s Constitutional Morality/Swaha Das and Hari Nair. 10. Understanding Gandhi for the Contemporary World/Gita Dharampal. 11. Close Encounters of an Imperial Kind: Gandhi, Gender, and Anti-colonialism1/Karen Gabriel. 12. Gandhi and the Jews/Barry L. Gan. 13. Gandhian Theory of International Politics/Anurag Gangal. 14. Toward a Non-violent World Order: Gandhi’s Light to the World/Robert L. Holmes. 15. Personal Asceticism and Political Activism, Spiritual Cravings, and Social Movements: The Stupendous Muddle of Gandhi’s Theory and Practice of Brahmacharya/Prakash Joshi. 16. Decoding Gandhian Studies: The Odishan Sources of Gandhi’s Ideas/Kamalakanta Roul. 17. Nai Talim in the Context of Discrete Educational Experiments in India/Tripti Karekatti. 18. The Subversion of the Colonial System of Humiliation: A Case Study of the Gandhian Strategy/Rina Kashyap. 19. The Legacy of Mahatma Gandhi in the Nehruvian Foreign Policy of India: A Retrospective Analysis/Sourav Naskar. 20. Empowering the Oppressed: A Gandhian Approach to Mahasweta Devi’s Aajir/Natasha Vashisht. 21. Mahatma Gandhi and Rabindranath Tagore: Synchronous Philosophy and Dichotomy in Experiment/Pravat Kumar Padhy. 22. Gandhi and the Bhagavad Gita: A Derivative Discourse on Non-violence, Karmayoga, Varnashram Dharma and Moksha/Ramchandra Pradhan. 23. Gandhi and Communal Harmony/Ram Puniyani. 24. Gandhian Vision of Self-Reliance in Traditional and Village Industries Sector: Insights from Two Cases in Assam/Ratna Bhuyan and Santanu M. Deka. 25. Gandhi and Thanthai Periyar: Believer and Non-believer Par Excellence/V. Sangeetha. 26. The Efficacy of Non-violence in Present Context/Manish Sharma. 27. Gandhi on Society, Swaraj, and Democracy/Shilpa Shaw. 28. The Making of Mahatma: Unravelling the Mystery of Bapu’s Talisman/Vilas Shinde. 29. Understanding Gandhian Trusteeship in the Light of Industry and CSR/Harish K. Thakur. 30. Satyagraha as a Gandhian Method of Conflict Transformation/Vibhuti Patel.

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was an eminent freedom activist and an influential political leader who also played a dominant role in India’s struggle for independence. The 150th birth centennial celebrations of Mahatma Gandhi are a time for reflection on his life and works. Reflections on Mahatma Gandhi: The Global Perspectives is an outcome of the book project commemorated to the life and works of Mahatma Gandhi on his 150th birth anniversary. 

Gandhi is one of the great minds of global peace and non-violence and is also subjected to radical criticism. Being an advocate of basic human rights, he was the most influential figure and advocate of non-violence, and this scholarship has been universally confirmed for its success of non-violence as a method and strategy for resistance.

In this interdisciplinary collection, scholarly articles are assembled that revisit the body of Gandhian works. This collection exhibits a significant variety in the analytical skills and frameworks employed in each and demonstrates the incredible reach and breadth of Gandhi's significance. These contemporary concerns result in a reviewing of already existing themes and preoccupations as well as helping to chart a path forward.