Gandhi's Experiments with Truth: Essential Writings by and about Mahatma GandhiRichard L. Johnson This comprehensive Gandhi reader provides an essential new reference for scholars and students of his life and thought. It is the only text available that presents Gandhi's own writings, including excerpts from three of his books--An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth, Satyagraha in South Africa, Hind Swaraj (Indian Home Rule)-a major pamphlet, Constructive Programme: Its Meaning and Place, and many journal articles and letters along with a biographical sketch of his life in historical context and recent essays by highly regarded scholars. The writers of these essays--hailing from the United States, Canada, Great Britain and India, with academic credentials in several different disciplines--examine his nonviolent campaigns, his development of programs to unify India, and his impact on the world in the second half of the twentieth century and the beginning of the twenty-first. Gandhi's Experiments with Truth provides an unparalleled range of scholarly material and perspectives on this enduring philosopher, peace activist, and spiritual guide. |
Contents
From Childhood to Satyagrahi | 3 |
Return to India | 17 |
Selections from Writings by Gandhi | 53 |
An Autobiography The Story of My Experiments with Truth | 55 |
Satyagraha in South Africa | 71 |
Hind Swaraj Indian Home Rule and Related Writings | 83 |
Constructive Programme Its Meaning and Place and Related Writings | 92 |
Short Moral and Political Writings | 104 |
The Constructive Programme | 253 |
Gandhis Impact on the World | 261 |
Gandhi in the Mind of America | 263 |
The Availability of Mahatma Gandhi Toward a NeoGandhian Praxis | 292 |
Gandhi Contemporary Political Thinking and SelfOther Relations | 305 |
Gandhis Legacy | 334 |
Gandhis Contribution to Global Nonviolent Awakening | 351 |
Gandhi Nonviolence and the Struggle Against War | 365 |
Writings about Gandhi Part A Gandhis Practice and Theory of Satyagraha | 161 |
The Birth of Gandhian Satyagraha Nonviolent Resistance and Soul Force | 163 |
Gandhian Freedoms and SelfRule | 175 |
Gandhis Politics | 198 |
Satyagraha The Only Way to Stop Terrorism | 228 |
Gandhi and Human Rights In Search of True Humanity | 237 |
Glossary | 373 |
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About the Contributors | 385 |
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