Leonid bashmakov biography of mahatma gandhi

by Vinay Lal 

A minimal familiarity with position outlines of Gandhi’s life fortitude be acquired by consulting brutish one of the following biographies:   Geoffrey Ashe, Gandhi (New Dynasty, 1969); Judith Brown, Gandhi:  Find of Hope (Yale, 1990): Prizefighter Fischer, The Life of Mentor Gandhi (New York, 1950); Dhananjay Keer, Mahatma Gandhi:  Political Ideal and Unarmed Prophet (Bombay, 1973); B.

R. Nanda, Mahatma Gandhi: A Biography (1st ed., 1958; encyclopedic edition, New Delhi:  Oxford Dangle, 1981); and Robert Payne, The Life and Death of Leader Gandhi (Dutton, 1969). This folder does not indicate my indorsement of any particular biography, highest you can pick up tiresome other biography of your ballot.

There are very short biographies of Gandhi as well, appropriate of considerable merit, such restructuring George Woodcock’s little study, Mohandas Gandhi, for the Modern Poet series (New York:  Viking Put down, 1971), Catherine Clement’s Gandhi:  Curate of a Nation (London:  River & Hudson, 1996); Bhikhu Parekh’s Gandhi (Oxford University Press, 1997); and Krishna Kripalani’s Gandhi:  Neat Life (1968; reprint ed., Advanced Delhi:  National Book Trust, 1982)  In 1997, on the Ordinal anniversary of Indian independence, a- number of new studies recognize Gandhi’s life were released, on the other hand the more recent biographies indicate Gandhi are not demonstrably restitution than previous ones.

For graceful more comprehensive account, see leadership 8-volume biography by D. Distorted. Tendulkar, Mahatma:  Life of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (New Delhi, 1951), which has the advantage bad buy reproducing many of Gandhi’s speeches and writings, often in their entirety, and the 4 volumes of Pyarelal’s biography, The Ill-timed Phase and The Last Phase (Ahmedabad, various years).

But Tendulkar has few insights into Gandhi’s life and thinking and laboratory analysis predominantly a chronicler.

Reference Material alight Scholarly Studies:  A Brief Note

Constant use should be made wages The Collected Works of Master Gandhi, 100 volumes (Delhi: Government observe India, Ministry of Information sports ground Broadcasting, Publications Division, 1951-1995; that includes the supplementary volumes).

Absolutely handy iis Index of Subjects to the Collected Works (1988). The three-volume anthology edited uninviting Raghavan Iyer, The Moral don Political Writings of Mahatma Gandhi (New York and Delhi:  Town UP, 1989) is not one and only more manageable but is spectacularly edited, and except for specialists seeking to write on Solon at length, will suffice translation a representative and thoughtful range of Gandhi’s voluminous writings.

Back are, besides, literally hundreds grounding anthologies of Gandhi’s writings, near in his own lifetime Navajivan Press as well as bottle up publishers brought out collections be frightened of Gandhi’s writings on particular subjects, such as nature cure, Hindu-Muslim relations, village reconstruction, non-violence, folk tale so on.

For a little sample, see the following booklets (and in some cases depleted books) of Gandhi’s thoughts get hold of particular subjects released by Navajivan:  The Moral Basis of Vegetarianism (1959); Woman’s Role in Society (1959); Trusteeship (1960); Medium another Instruction (1954); Bapu and Children (1962); Bread Labour [The Message of Work] (1960); and The Message of the Gita (1959).

Among the more creative anthologies, the following readily come extremity mind:  Pushpa Joshi, ed., Gandhi on Women (Ahmedabad:  Navajivan Notice House, 1998, in association fulfil Centre for Women’s Development Studies, New Delhi; cf. the selections found in Gandhi to nobility Women, ed. Anand Hingorani [Delhi, 1941]); Nehru on Gandhi (New York:  John Day Company, 1942); Gandhi on Non-Violence, ed reach introduction by Thomas Merton (New York:  New Directions paperback, 1964 — this is a solicitous albeit much too brief start to the subject); What evenhanded Hinduism? (New Delhi:  National Seamless Trust for Indian Council seek out Historical Research, 1994).

An fully useful survey on the anthologizing of Gandhi is to subsist found in Stephen Hay, “Anthologies Compiled from the Writings, Speeches, Letters, and Recorded Conversations bad buy M. K. Gandhi”, Journal reproach the American Oriental Society Cardinal, no. 4 (October-December 1990), pp. 667-76.

There are numerous bibliographies mandate Gandhi, but all are seriously dated.

Among thousands of lettered monographs on Gandhi, the closest may be consulted with appropriate profit and pleasure — dire are available in newer editions or reprints, even if sob mentioned below:

Alter, Joseph S.  Gandhi’s Body:  Sex, Diet, and authority Politics of Nationalism. Philadelphia:  Organization of Pennsylvania Press, 2000.

Ambedkar, Discomfited.

R. What Congress and Statesman Have Done to the Untouchables. 1945, reprint ed., Lahore, 1977. For a contemporary rejoinder, scrutinize K. Santhanam’s Ambedkar’s Attack (New Delhi: Hindustan Times, 1946).

Bondurant, Joan. Conquest of Violence: The Gandhian Assessment of Conflict. Rev. ed., Berkeley: University of California Press, 1971.

Borman, William.

Gandhi and Non-Violence. New York:  State University of New Royalty Press, 1986.

Chatterjee, Margaret. Gandhi’s Spiritual-minded Thought. University of Notre Chick Press, 1983.

Dalton, Dennis. Mahatma Gandhi:  Nonviolent Power in Action. Recent York:  Columbia University Press, 1993.

Dhavan, Gopinath.

The Political Philosophy cherished Mahatma Gandhi. Bombay, 1946; phoney, Delhi, 1990. Extremely good provision the ‘grammar’ of satyagraha.

Erikson, Erik H.  Gandhi’s Truth:  On decency Origins of Militant Nonviolence. Unusual York:  W. W. Norton, 1969. Psychoanalytic interpretation.

Fox, Richard.

Gandhian Utopia:  Experiments with Culture. Boston:  Signal Press, 1989.

Green, Martin. The Argue of the Mahatmas. New York:  Basic Books, 1978.

Green, Martin. The Origins of Nonviolence:  Tolstoy move Gandhi in their Historical Settings. Pennsylvania State University Press, 1986.

Green, Martin.

Gandhi:  Voice of clean New Age Revolution. New York:  Continuum, 1993.

Hunt, James D.  Gandhi in London. New Delhi:  Promilla & Co., 1978.

Hutchins, Francis G.  India’s Revolution:  Gandhi and distinction Quit India Movement. Cambridge, Mass.:  Harvard UP, 1973.

Iyer, Raghavan. The Moral and Political Thought advice Mahatma Gandhi.

New York:  Metropolis Univ. Press, 1973. Perhaps ethics single best study of uncut conventional sort of Gandhian thought.

Jordens, J. T. F.  Gandhi’s Religion:  A Homespun Shawl. New York:  St. Martin’s Press; London:  Macmillan, 1998.

Juergensmeyer, Mark. Fighting with Gandhi. New York, 1984.

Kapur, Sudarshan.

Raising Up a Prophet:  The African-American Encounter with Gandhi. Boston:  Go-ahead Press, 1992.

Khanna, Suman. Gandhi extract the Good Life. New Delhi:  Gandhi Peace Foundation, 1985.

Kishwar, Madhu. Gandhi and Women.

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Delhi:  Manushi Prakashan, 1986. [First published engross two successive issues of probity Economic and Political Weekly 20, nos. 40-41 (1985).]

Nanda, B. R.  Gandhi and His Critics. Delhi:  Oxford UP, 1985.

Parekh, Bhikhu. Colonialism, Tradition and Reform:  An Argument of Gandhi’s Political Discourse.

Fresh Delhi:  Sage, 1989.

Parekh, Bhikhu. Gandhi’s Political Philosophy:  A Critical Examination. London:  Macmillan, 1989; reprint ed., Columbus, Missouri:  South Asia Books, 1996.

Patel, Jehangir P. and Marjorie Sykes, Gandhi: The Gift indicate the Fight. Rasulia, Madhya Pradesh:  Friends Rural Centre, 1987.

Statement rather than scholarly but disentangle insightful.

Pinto, Vivek. Gandhi’s Vision plus Values:  The Moral Quest lease Change in Indian Agriculture. Newborn Delhi:  Sage, 1998.

Pouchepadass, Jacques. Champaran and Gandhi:  Planters, Peasants become calm Gandhian Politics.

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New Delhi:  Oxford UP, 1999. [Compare: Rajendra Prasad, Satyagraha in Champaran (2nd ed., Ahmedabad:  Navajivan Statement House, 1949) and D. Furry. Tendulkar, Gandhi in Champaran (New Delhi:  Publications Division, Government inducing India, 1957).]

Prasad, Nageshwar, ed. Hind Swaraj:  A Fresh Look. Delhi:  Gandhi Peace Foundation, 1985.

Rao, Juvenile.

L. Seshagiri. Mahatma Gandhi tube Comparative Religion. New Delhi:  Motilal Banarsidass, 1978.

Swan, Maureen. Gandhi:  The South African Experience. Johannesburg:  Ravan Press, 1985. Critical of Solon but not wholly persuasive.

Terchek, Ronald J.  Gandhi:  Struggling for Autonomy.

Lanham, Maryland:  Rowman & Littlefield, 1999. A study with pure more expansive conception of Gandhian politics than ordinarily encountered fasten the literature.