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Mahatma Gandhi's fundamental work - a key to understanding both his life and thought, and South Asian politics in the twentieth century.

Constructive Programme - Its Meaning and Place by M. K. Gandhi: Explore Mahatma M. K. Gandhi's vision for constructive social change and self-reliance with "Constructive Programme - Its Meaning and Place." This book outlines Gandhi's principles for creating a just and self-sustaining society. Key Aspects of the Book "Constructive Programme - Its Meaning and Place": Social Transformation: The book details Gandhi's approach to social reform, emphasizing constructive action, community empowerment, and self-sufficiency. Economic Self-Reliance: "Constructive Programme" highlights the importance of economic self-reliance, including the promotion of cottage industries and village-based development. Gandhian Ideals: This work embodies Gandhi's ideals of truth, non-violence, and social justice, offering a blueprint for individuals and communities to work towards a better society. Mahatma M. K. Gandhi's commitment to non-violence and social reform left an indelible mark on India and the world. His constructive program aimed at empowering communities and promoting self-sufficiency.

This comprehensive Gandhi reader provides an essential new reference for scholars and students of his life and thought. It is the only text available that presents Gandhi's own writings, including excerpts from three of his books--An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth, Satyagraha in South Africa, Hind Swaraj (Indian Home Rule)-a major pamphlet, Constructive Programme: Its Meaning and Place, and many journal articles and letters along with a biographical sketch of his life in historical context and recent essays by highly regarded scholars. The writers of these essays--hailing from the United States, Canada, Great Britain and India, with academic credentials in several different disciplines--examine his nonviolent campaigns, his development of programs to unify India, and his impact on the world in the second half of the twentieth century and the beginning of the twenty-first. Gandhi's Experiments with Truth provides an unparalleled range of scholarly material and perspectives on this enduring philosopher, peace activist, and spiritual guide.

Can Gandhi be considered a systematic thinker? While the significance of Gandhi’s thought and life to our times is undeniable it is widely assumed that he did not serve any discipline and cannot be considered a systematic thinker. Despite an overwhelming body of scholarship and literature on his life and thought the presuppositions of Gandhi’s experiments, the systematic nature of his intervention in modern political theory and his method have not previously received sustained attention. Addressing this lacuna, the book contends that Gandhi’s critique of modern civilization, the presuppositions of post-Enlightenment political theory and their epistemological and metaphysical foundations is both comprehensive and systematic. Gandhi’s experiments with truth in the political arena during the Indian Independence movement are studied from the point of view of his conscious engagement with method and theory rather than merely as a personal creed, spiritual position or moral commitment. The author shows how Gandhi’s experiments are illustrative of his theoretical position, and how they form the basis of his opposition to the foundations of modern western political theory and the presuppositions of the modern nation state besides envisioning the foundations of an alternative modernity for India, and by its example, for the world.

Chiefly on Hindu-Muslim unity.