WHY GANDHI STILL MATTERS by Rajmohan Gandhi

WHY GANDHI STILL MATTERS by Rajmohan Gandhi

Close to 150 years after he was born, how relevant is Mahatma Gandhi? In our country, he is revered as the Father of the Nation; his face still adorns currency notes, postage stamps and government offices; streets and welfare schemes continue to be named after him but has he been reduced to a mere symbol? Do his values, message and sacrifice have any meaning for us in the twenty-first century? In Why Gandhi Still Matters, the Mahatma's grandson and award-winning writer and scholar Rajmohan Gandhi, appraises Gandhi and his legacy by examining some of his most famous (and often most controversial) ideas, beliefs, actions, successes and failures. He analyses Gandhi's commitment to democracy, secularism, pluralism, equality and non-violence, his gift to the world of satyagraha, the key strategies in his fight for India's freedom, his opposition to caste discrimination, and his equations with Churchill, Jinnah and Ambedkar, as also his failings as a human being and family man. Taken together, the author's insights present an unsentimental view of aspects of Gandhi's legacy that have endured and those that have been cast aside by power-hungry politicians, hate groups, casteist organizations, venal industrialists, terrorists, and other enemies of India's promise.

Rajmohan Gandhi is a research professor at the Center for South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, a former parliamentarian in India, the author of the award-winning biography Gandhi (Haus, 2010). He is the grandson of the Mahatma Gandhi.

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ISBN 13	9789386021151
ISBN 10	9386021153
Title	WHY GANDHI STILL MATTERS
Author	Rajmohan Gandhi
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd.
Year published	2017-05-19
Number of pages	220
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