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

Author:   Rajeev Bhargava (The Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi, India)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
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9780367458072


Pages:   354
Publication Date:   23 June 2022
Format:   Hardback
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Politics, Ethics and the Self: Re-reading Gandhi’s Hind Swaraj


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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, analytical precision, and sustained argument. This book critically engages with Hind Swaraj and explores the fascinating and subtle dialogue set up by Gandhi between the characters of the reader and the editor. With essays from leading contemporary thinkers on Gandhi, the volume looks at themes such as Gandhi on epistemic servitude, decolonization, and intercultural translation; his complex critique of modern civilization; his views on the empire, democracy, citizenship, and violence; the normative structure of Gandhian thought; Gandhi and the political praxis of educational reconstruction; and how to read this text. An important intervention in Gandhian studies, this book will be useful for scholars and researchers of peace studies, political philosophy, Indian philosophy, Indian political thought, political sociology, and South Asian studies.

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Author:   Rajeev Bhargava (The Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi, India)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge India
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9780367458072


ISBN 10:   0367458071
Pages:   354
Publication Date:   23 June 2022
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Introduction Rajeev Bhargava Part 1: The truncated ethic of modern civilization1. 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 self14. 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

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

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