1st Edition
Gandhi After Gandhi The Relevance of the Mahatma’s Legacy in Today’s World
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
List of Contributors
Introduction
Part I: Gandhi, Laws and Civil Rights: Gandhian Legacy in Africa and United States
Gandhi and the culture of constitutionalism
Pratyush Kumar
Gandhi and Pan-Africanism (1919-1945)
Chiara Corazza
Gandhi’s Legacy in South Africa through literature and arts
Carmen Concilio
"Stride Toward Freedom": Martin Luther King, the Montgomery Bus Boycott and the Gandhian Lesson
Andrea Carosso
Part II: Gandhi’s political views and experience in a historical perspective
The Mahatma and the Muslims. Gandhi’s role in making India’s partition inevitable
Michelguglielmo Torri
Partitions and Beyond: Gandhi’s Views on Palestine’s and India’s divides
Marzia Casolari
Rethinking Gandhi’s Secularism: How Did Gandhi’s Brahmacarya Relate to His Last Political Vision?
Eijiro Hazama
Part III: Gandhian economy and grassroots experiences
Gandhi’s visionary critique of industrialisation and western civilisation in the light of India’s globalized economy
Jagyoseni Mandal
A Nayi, Nai Talim: Reinventing Gandhian Education for a new social order. A case study.
Pallavi Varma Patil and Roshni Ravi
Appendix 1: Nayi, Nai Talim
Appendix 2: The Ragi Project in pictures
Index
Biography
Marzia Casolari is an associate professor of Asian History at the University of Turin, Italy. She has done extensive research on Indian and South Asian contemporary history and politics and writes regularly on contemporary politics in India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. With Routledge she published the book In the Shadow of the Swastika: The Relationships Between Indian Radical Nationalism, Italian Fascism and Nazism.
