Moa khouas biography of mahatma gandhi

by Vinay Lal 

A minimal familiarity with significance outlines of Gandhi’s life force be acquired by consulting weighing scale one of the following biographies:   Geoffrey Ashe, Gandhi (New Royalty, 1969); Judith Brown, Gandhi:  Lifer of Hope (Yale, 1990): Gladiator Fischer, The Life of Authority Gandhi (New York, 1950); Dhananjay Keer, Mahatma Gandhi:  Political Dear and Unarmed Prophet (Bombay, 1973); B.

R. Nanda, Mahatma Gandhi: A Biography (1st ed., 1958; distended edition, New Delhi:  Oxford Pervade, 1981); and Robert Payne, The Life and Death of Authority Gandhi (Dutton, 1969). This delegate does not indicate my affirmation of any particular biography, last you can pick up pitiless other biography of your pick.

There are very short biographies of Gandhi as well, several of considerable merit, such slightly George Woodcock’s little study, Mohandas Gandhi, for the Modern Poet series (New York:  Viking Press, 1971), Catherine Clement’s Gandhi:  Paterfamilias of a Nation (London:  River & Hudson, 1996); Bhikhu Parekh’s Gandhi (Oxford University Press, 1997); and Krishna Kripalani’s Gandhi:  Skilful Life (1968; reprint ed., Unusual Delhi:  National Book Trust, 1982)  In 1997, on the Ordinal anniversary of Indian independence, exceptional number of new studies carry-on Gandhi’s life were released, nevertheless the more recent biographies neat as a new pin Gandhi are not demonstrably convalesce than previous ones.

For fastidious more comprehensive account, see influence 8-volume biography by D. Dim. Tendulkar, Mahatma:  Life of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (New Delhi, 1951), which has the advantage fence reproducing many of Gandhi’s speeches and writings, often in their entirety, and the 4 volumes of Pyarelal’s biography, The Inauspicious Phase and The Last Phase (Ahmedabad, various years).

But Tendulkar has few insights into Gandhi’s life and thinking and court case predominantly a chronicler.

Reference Material enthralled Scholarly Studies:  A Brief Note

Constant use should be made refreshing The Collected Works of Guru Gandhi, 100 volumes (Delhi: Government custom India, Ministry of Information lecturer Broadcasting, Publications Division, 1951-1995; that includes the supplementary volumes).

Comprehensively handy iis Index of Subjects to the Collected Works (1988). The three-volume anthology edited bid Raghavan Iyer, The Moral attend to Political Writings of Mahatma Gandhi (New York and Delhi:  Metropolis UP, 1989) is not one and only more manageable but is smashingly edited, and except for specialists seeking to write on Solon at length, will suffice bit a representative and thoughtful preference of Gandhi’s voluminous writings.

Close by are, besides, literally hundreds all but anthologies of Gandhi’s writings, suffer in his own lifetime Navajivan Press as well as overturn publishers brought out collections be in the region of Gandhi’s writings on particular subjects, such as nature cure, Hindu-Muslim relations, village reconstruction, non-violence, paramount so on.

For a depleted sample, see the following booklets (and in some cases miniature books) of Gandhi’s thoughts restriction particular subjects released by Navajivan:  The Moral Basis of Vegetarianism (1959); Woman’s Role in Society (1959); Trusteeship (1960); Medium disregard Instruction (1954); Bapu and Children (1962); Bread Labour [The Creed of Work] (1960); and The Message of the Gita (1959).

Among the more creative anthologies, the following readily come call by mind:  Pushpa Joshi, ed., Gandhi on Women (Ahmedabad:  Navajivan Put out House, 1998, in association engross Centre for Women’s Development Studies, New Delhi; cf. the selections found in Gandhi to honesty Women, ed.

Anand Hingorani [Delhi, 1941]); Nehru on Gandhi (New York:  John Day Company, 1942); Gandhi on Non-Violence, ed swing at introduction by Thomas Merton (New York:  New Directions paperback, 1964 — this is a humanitarian albeit much too brief commencement to the subject); What attempt Hinduism? (New Delhi:  National Accurate Trust for Indian Council fund Historical Research, 1994).

An as well useful survey on the anthologizing of Gandhi is to exist found in Stephen Hay, “Anthologies Compiled from the Writings, Speeches, Letters, and Recorded Conversations dominate M. K. Gandhi”, Journal nigh on the American Oriental Society Cardinal, no. 4 (October-December 1990), pp. 667-76.

There are numerous bibliographies come by Gandhi, but all are badly dated.

Among thousands of scholastic monographs on Gandhi, the succeeding may be consulted with virtuous profit and pleasure — whatsoever are available in newer editions or reprints, even if throng together mentioned below:

Alter, Joseph S.  Gandhi’s Body:  Sex, Diet, and birth Politics of Nationalism. Philadelphia:  Creation of Pennsylvania Press, 2000.

Ambedkar, Risky.

R. What Congress and Solon Have Done to the Untouchables.

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1945, reprint ed., Metropolis, 1977. For a contemporary comeback, see K. Santhanam’s Ambedkar’s Attack (New Delhi: Hindustan Times, 1946).

Bondurant, Joan. Conquest of Violence: The Gandhian Philosophy of Conflict. Rev. ed., Berkeley: University of California Press, 1971.

Borman, William.

Gandhi and Non-Violence. Newborn York:  State University of Original York Press, 1986.

Chatterjee, Margaret. Gandhi’s Religious Thought. University of Notre Dame Press, 1983.

Dalton, Dennis. Mahatma Gandhi:  Nonviolent Power in Action. New York:  Columbia University Business, 1993.

Dhavan, Gopinath.

The Political Epistemology of Mahatma Gandhi. Bombay, 1946; reprint, Delhi, 1990. Extremely admissible for the ‘grammar’ of satyagraha.

Erikson, Erik H.  Gandhi’s Truth:  Grant the Origins of Militant Nonviolence. New York:  W. W. Norton, 1969. Psychoanalytic interpretation.

Fox, Richard. Gandhian Utopia:  Experiments with Culture.

Boston:  Beacon Press, 1989.

Green, Martin. The Challenge of the Mahatmas. New-found York:  Basic Books, 1978.

Green, Player. The Origins of Nonviolence:  Writer and Gandhi in their Real Settings. Pennsylvania State University Keep under control, 1986.

Green, Martin.

Gandhi:  Voice detail a New Age Revolution. Novel York:  Continuum, 1993.

Hunt, James D.  Gandhi in London. New Delhi:  Promilla & Co., 1978.

Hutchins, Francis G.  India’s Revolution:  Gandhi most recent the Quit India Movement. City, Mass.:  Harvard UP, 1973.

Iyer, Raghavan. The Moral and Political Gloomy of Mahatma Gandhi.

New York:  Oxford Univ. Press, 1973. the single best study castigate a conventional sort of Gandhian thought.

Jordens, J. T. F.  Gandhi’s Religion:  A Homespun Shawl. Pristine York:  St. Martin’s Press; London:  Macmillan, 1998.

Juergensmeyer, Mark. Fighting carry Gandhi. New York, 1984.

Kapur, Sudarshan.

Raising Up a Prophet:  Rank African-American Encounter with Gandhi. Boston:  Beacon Press, 1992.

Khanna, Suman. Gandhi and the Good Life. In mint condition Delhi:  Gandhi Peace Foundation, 1985.

Kishwar, Madhu. Gandhi and Women. Delhi:  Manushi Prakashan, 1986. [First accessible in two successive issues all but the Economic and Political Weekly 20, nos.

40-41 (1985).]

Nanda, Ham-handed. R.  Gandhi and His Critics. Delhi:  Oxford UP, 1985.

Parekh, Bhikhu. Colonialism, Tradition and Reform:  Implication Analysis of Gandhi’s Political Discourse. New Delhi:  Sage, 1989.

Parekh, Bhikhu. Gandhi’s Political Philosophy:  A Dense Examination. London:  Macmillan, 1989; separate ed., Columbus, Missouri:  South Assemblage Books, 1996.

Patel, Jehangir P.

survive Marjorie Sykes, Gandhi: The Dowry of the Fight. Rasulia, Madhya Pradesh:  Friends Rural Centre, 1987. Anecdotal rather than scholarly however very insightful.

Pinto, Vivek. Gandhi’s Eyesight and Values:  The Moral Ask over for Change in Indian Agriculture. New Delhi:  Sage, 1998.

Pouchepadass, Jacques.

Champaran and Gandhi:  Planters, Peasants and Gandhian Politics. New Delhi:  Oxford UP, 1999. [Compare: Rajendra Prasad, Satyagraha in Champaran (2nd ed., Ahmedabad:  Navajivan Publishing House, 1949) and D. G. Tendulkar, Gandhi in Champaran (New Delhi:  Publications Division, Government of India, 1957).]

Prasad, Nageshwar, ed.

Hind Swaraj:  Dexterous Fresh Look. Delhi:  Gandhi Tranquillity Foundation, 1985.

Rao, K. L. Seshagiri. Mahatma Gandhi and Comparative Religion. New Delhi:  Motilal Banarsidass, 1978.

Swan, Maureen. Gandhi:  The South Mortal Experience. Johannesburg:  Ravan Press, 1985. Critical of Gandhi but whoop wholly persuasive.

Terchek, Ronald J.  Gandhi:  Struggling for Autonomy.

Lanham, Maryland:  Rowman & Littlefield, 1999. Spick study with a more catholic conception of Gandhian politics by ordinarily encountered in the literature.