1st Edition

Rethinking Gandhi and Nonviolent Relationality Global Perspectives

Edited By Debjani Ganguly, John Docker Copyright 2008
288 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

284 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

300 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book presents a rethinking of the world legacy of Mahatma Gandhi in this era of unspeakable global violence. Through interdisciplinary research, key Gandhian concepts are revisited by tracing their genealogies in multiple histories of world contact and by foregrounding their relevance to contemporary struggles to regain the ‘humane’ in the midst of global conflict. The relevance of Gandhian... Read more

1. Global State of War and Moral Vernaculars of Nonviolence: Reframing Gandhi in a New World Order – Debjani Ganguly

SECTION I: WORLDING THE GANDHIAN EVERYDAY: FOOD, MEDICINE,

FASTS

2. Ahimsa and Other Animals: The Genealogy of an Immature Politics – Leela Gandhi

3. The Quack Whom We Know: Illness and Nursing in Gandhi – Sandhya Shetty

4. Emptied of All but Love: Gandhi’s First Public Fast – Tridip Suhrud

SECTION II: OF FRIENDSHIP, LAW AND LANGUAGE: SHAPING GANDHIAN ‘WEAKNESS’

5. Gandhi Moves: Intentional Communities and Friendship – Tom Weber

6. From Lawyer to Civil Disobedient, 1897-1898: A Microcosm of Change – Charles R. DiSalvo

7. Only One Word, Properly Altered: Gandhi and the Question of Veshya – Ajay Skaria

SECTION III: CARRYING GANDHI OVER: GLOBAL PEACE MOVEMENTS

8. Globalising Gandhi: Translation, Reinvention, Application, Transformation – Sean Scalmer

9. Gandhiji in Burma, Burma in Gandhiji – Penny Edwards

10. Nonviolence and Long Hot Summers: Black Women’s Activism in 1960s Baltimore – Rhonda Y. Williams

SECTION IV: INTERLOCUTING WITH MODERNITY: GANDHI AT HOME

AND IN THE WORLD

11. Josephus: Traitor or Gandhian avant la lettre? – John Docker

12. Homespun Wisdom: Gandhi, Technology and Nationalism – Anjali Roy

13. Vernacular Cosmopolitanism: World Historical Readings of Gandhi and Ambedkar – Debjani Ganguly

 

Biography

Debjani Ganguly (Australian National University, Australia) (Edited by) , John Docker (Australian National University, Australia) (Edited by)