TY  - BOOK
AU  - Weber,Thomas
TI  - Gandhi, Gandhism and the Gandhians 
SN  - 8174364684
U1  - 954.035 
PY  - 2006///
CY  - New Delhi 
PB  - Lotus Collection
KW  - Political and social views
KW  - Mahatma gandhi
KW  - gandhian studies
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - Nonviolence
KW  - Statesmen
KW  - Politics and government-India
N2  - Contents Foreword. Introduction. I. Gandhi 1. Kharag Bahadur Singh the eightieth marcher. 2. Historiography and the Dandi March the other myths of Gandhi's Salt March. 3. Gandhi moves. 4. Gandhi and the Nobel Peace Prize. II. Gandhism 5. Legal ethics/Gandhian ethics. 6. Gandhian philosophy Conflict Resolution Theory and practical approaches to negotiation. 7. The marchers simply walked forward until struck down nonviolent suffering and conversion. 8. The lesson from the disciples is there a contradiction in Gandhi's philosophy of action. III. The Gandhians 9. Peacekeeping the Shanti Sena and divisions in the Gandhian Movement during the Border War with China. 10. A brief history of the Shanti Sena as seen through the changing pledges of the Shanti Sainik. 11. Gandhi is Dead. Long Live Gandhi the Post Gandhian Movement in India. 12. Gandhi deep ecology peace research and Buddhist economics. Bibliography. Mahatma Gandhi and his philosophy of truth and nonviolence have intrigued the world for decades. Looking at the Western and Indian influences that had gone into making Gandhi the Mahatma and the central importance of Gandhi to nonviolent activism these essays reclaim the power of truth and nonviolence which can still change the destinies of people and nations. In this collection Thomas Weber discusses Gandhi his ideology and how India and the rest of the world is interpreting and reinterpreting the Mahatma. The doctrine of Conflict Resolution Theory new environmentalism peace research deep ecology and Buddhist economics based on Gandhian principles renews the world's belief in Mahatma and his teachings for our life and our times
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