Politics, Ethics and the Self

Re-reading Gandhi's Hind Swaraj
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-0-367-45807-2
Verlag: Routledge India

Buch, Englisch, 370 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 722 g

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.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bhargava, Rajeev

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Regionalwissenschaften, Regionalstudien
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

Rajeev Bhargava



Part 1: The truncated ethic of modern civilization

1. 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 self

14. 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

Über Autor(innen)

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