Gandhian Utopia: Experiments with CultureBeacon Press, 1989 - 330 halaman Although Mohandas Gandhi -- as saint, politician, health faddist, and peacenik -- is a familiar icon in the West, there is, strangely, no portrayal of him as a scientist pursuing truth, which is how he saw himself. He entitled his autobiography "My Experiments with Truth", and described his life as a series of experimental episodes aimed at a just and moral social revolution with nonviolent resistance as his experimental method. Richard Fox chronicles the cultural history of these "experiments with truth" that Gandhi undertook. Fox traces the roots of Gandhi's utopian ideal to nineteenth-century reformers and follows it through the successful nonviolent resistance to British colonialism. He concludes with a portrait of contemporary India, in which Gandhian utopia has been unexpectedly usurped by Hindu nationalists. -- From publisher's description. |
Isi
Experimenting with Gandhi | 19 |
Gandhian Utopia | 37 |
Experiments and Innovations | 61 |
Hak Cipta | |
9 bagian lainnya tidak diperlihatkan
Istilah dan frasa umum
affirmative Orientalism anthropology argues Aurobindo authority authorship backward castes became believed Bengali Besant bhoodan Bihar British colonialism chapter Chatterjee compelling concept confrontation Congress constituted cultural domination cultural innovation cultural meanings cultural resistance culture history Deendayal Delhi dhian discipline ethnographic ethnography existing culture experimentalists forward castes Gandhi Gandhian dream Gandhian experiments Gandhian utopia Gandhian vision Gandhism Golwalkar Gujarat hegemony hijack Hindu nationalism Hindu nationalist Hinduism ideas ideology independence India Indian cultural Indian nationalism Indian nationalists indigenous individual inequalities Jana Sangh Janata Jayaprakash Narayan khadi labor leaders Lohia lower-middle class Mahatma mass ment modern Muslims Narayan nationalist movement Nehru Nivedita nonviolent resistance organizations Ostergaard 1985 panchayati raj party passive peasants political protest reform revolutionary Ricoeur rural Sarkar Sarva Seva Sangh sarvodaya satyagraha social society South Africa spiritual struggle total revolution traditions truth Untouchables urban utopian vision village Vinoba voluntary Western workers world system