1st Edition

Politics, Ethics and the Self Re-reading Gandhi’s Hind Swaraj

Edited By Rajeev Bhargava Copyright 2022
370 Pages
by Routledge India

370 Pages
by Routledge India

370 Pages
by Routledge India

Hind Swaraj by Mahatma Gandhi is arguably the greatest text to have emerged from the anti-colonial movement in India and the first to seriously challenge the cultural and civilizational premises of the colonizers’ mentality. It is also the first text in India that falls within the broad tradition of modern political philosophy, advancing a complex cluster of theses with conceptual sensitivity,... Read more

Introduction

Rajeev Bhargava

 

Part 1: The truncated ethic of modern civilization

1. The Originality of Hind Swaraj

Anthony J. Parel

 

2.  Gandhi and the Debate about Civilization

Lloyd I. Rudolph and Susanne Hoeber Rudolph

 

3. English Rule Without the Englishman: Citizenship, Subalternity, and Gandhi's ‘Reader’

Ajay Skaria

 

4. Reflections on Gandhi’s Anti-Modernism

Akeel Bilgrami

 

5. Hind Swaraj: A Historical Necessity

Nandkishore Acharya

 

6. On the Normative Structure of Gandhian Thought: With Special Reference to Hind Swaraj

Satish K. Jain

 

Part 2: Empire, politics, and violence 

7.
Empire and Violence, or the Foes in Hind Swaraj

Rajmohan Gandhi

 

8. Political Self-Rule: Gandhi and the Future of Democracy

Fred Reinhard Dallmayr

 

9. Politics and Violence: Gandhi’s Ambivalence to Democracy

Uday Singh Mehta

 

10. A Nationalism Open Towards the World

Jeremy Webber

 

Part 3: Colonization of minds

11.  Learning from the South: Gandhi and Intercultural Translation

Boaventura de Sousa Santos

 

12. Beyond Decolonizing Knowledge: Revisiting the Svaraj in Ideas Debate

Shail Mayaram

 

13. Gandhi And Political Praxis of Educational Reconstruction, 1909–1938

Joseph Bara

 

Part 4: Cultivating self

14. Could Hind Swaraj Presuppose a Theory of Judgment?

Sasheej Hegde

 

15. Gandhi: Calling to Non-Violence Joined by a Strong Pragmatism 

Gangeya Mukherji  

 

16. Afterlife of a Text: Hind Swaraj and the Chhattisgarh Mukti Morcha

Hilal Ahmed

 

17. Sheherezade and Hind Swaraj

Lucy Nusseibeh and Sari Nusseibeh

 

18. Gandhi’s Twin Fasts and the Possibility of Non-Violence

Sudhir Chandra

 

Part 5: How to read Hind Swaraj

19.
Reading Hind Swarajya/Swaraj in Two Languages

Tridip Suhrud

 

Biography

Rajeev Bhargava is former Director, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, New Delhi, India.