In Search of Gandhi: Essays and Reflections

by B. R. Nanda

Overview

This book offers a collection of twenty-nine essays by noted scholar of Gandhian studies, BR Nanda. Presenting a composite picture of Gandhi's life and thought, the essays discuss Gandhi's formative years, his struggle against racism, his views on religion and the partition of India, his public life and professional relationships, and his political and economic thought.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780195672039
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	12/09/2004
Series:	Oxford India Paperbacks Series
Edition description:	Revised ed.
Pages:	280
Product dimensions:	8.20(w) x 5.70(h) x 1.10(d)

Table of Contents

Part I	The Making of the Mahatma
1.	In Search of Gandhi	3
2.	Gandhi and Religion	11
3.	Gandhi in South Africa	31
4.	Gandhi against Racialism	38
5.	Encounters with Death	44
6.	Gandhi's Identity Crisis	52
7.	Gandhi and Vivekananda	65
Part II	Freedom's Battle
8.	'And then Gandhi Came'	73
9.	The Dandi March	78
10.	'Quit India'	82
11.	Gandhi and Pan-Islamism	86
12.	Abdul Ghaffar Khan: the 'Frontier Gandhi'	107
13.	Gandhi and the Capitalists	124
14.	Mahadev Desai	138
15.	Gandhi and National Integration	143
16.	Tragedy and Triumph: Gandhi and the Partition of India	147
Part III	Towards Understanding Gandhi
17.	Gandhi and Nehru	161
18.	Three Disciples	171
19.	Jamnalal Bajaj	192
20.	Gandhi as a Trade Union Leader	197
21.	Pyarelal	202
22.	'I Have Become a Villager'	206
23.	Gandhi and the Jews	216
24.	Gandhi and the West	222
25.	Churchill's 'Half-naked Faqir'	226
26.	C.F. Andrews and Gandhi	230
27.	The Film Gandhi	244
28.	Gandhi and Non-violence	247
29.	Towards Understanding Gandhi	254
	Index	262