Gandhi
Title | Gandhi PDF eBook |
Author | Alex Ivanov |
Publisher | New Word City |
Pages | 196 |
Release | 2017-02-22 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1936529475 |
More than seventy years ago, one great nation, Great Britain, granted independence to another, India. The transfer of power, while civil, was not entirely peaceful. Hindus and Muslims turned against each other in spasms of sectarian violence. Refugees trekked across the subcontinent - Hindus toward India, and Muslims toward the new nation of Pakistan. Amid the tumult, one voice crying out for peace commanded attention. It belonged to a spindly, seventy-eight-year-old man who dressed in a loin cloth and carried a handmade spinning wheel. Mohandas Gandhi, known as the Mahatma, or Great Soul, had the ability to sway the masses through the force of prayer, fasting, and Satyagraha, or non-violent resistance. But just four months later, this apostle of peaceful protest and religious amity was gunned down by a Hindu nationalist. He left behind a stirring and complex legacy. While the word "original" can be too glibly applied to the great leaders of history, it only begins to describe Mohandas Gandhi. And this book, nearly seven decades after his death, takes a nuanced and textured look at his singular life, including his important, and often fraught, relationships with his wife and four sons. Gandhi was a London-trained barrister who took on the British Empire in two of it colonial outposts - South Africa and India. He was a warrior who invented a new form of warfare, one that used actions (or inactions) instead of guns. He was a canny politician who never held political office. He invoked God frequently, which his followers considered saintly and his detractors found merely sanctimonious. He was a vegetarian, a teetotaler, and a celibate, who, late in life "tested" his chastity by sleeping next to young, unclothed women. As this book shows, this extraordinary man, for all his great feats, was also extraordinarily human - and that humanness makes his story all the more compelling.
Gandhi's Teachers
Title | Gandhi's Teachers PDF eBook |
Author | Satish Sharma |
Publisher | |
Pages | 264 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | Jaina philosophers |
ISBN |
On the life and philosophy of Rajchandra Ravjibhai Mehta, 1868-1901, Jaina saint-philosopher from Gujarat, India.
The Story of My Experiments with Truth
Title | The Story of My Experiments with Truth PDF eBook |
Author | Mahatma Gandhi |
Publisher | |
Pages | 630 |
Release | 1927 |
Genre | Statemen |
ISBN |
Gandhi and Rajchandra
Title | Gandhi and Rajchandra PDF eBook |
Author | Uma Majmudar |
Publisher | Rowman & Littlefield |
Pages | 147 |
Release | 2020-08-20 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1793612005 |
Mahatma Gandhi, one of the greatest influencers in the world, was himself influenced by trailblazing thinkers and writers like Tolstoy, Ruskin, Thoreau, and others—each one contributing significantly to his moral and spiritual development. Yet only a few people know the most consequential person to have played a pivotal role in the making of the Mahatma: Shrimad Rajchandra. About the unparalleled influence of this person, Gandhi himself wrote: “I have met many a religious leader or teacher… and I must say that no one else ever made on me the impression that Raychandbhai did.” Uma Majmudar, digging deep into the original Gujarati writings of both Gandhi and Rajchandra, explores this important relationship and unfolds the unique impact of Rajchandra’s teachings and contributions upon Gandhi. The volume examines the contents and significance of their intimate spiritual discussions, letters, questions and answers. In this book, Dr. Majmudar brings to the forefront the scarcely known but critically important facts of how Rajchandra “molded Gandhi’s inner self, his character, his life, thoughts and actions.” This Jain zaveri (jeweller)-cum-spiritual seeker became Gandhi’s most trusted friend, as well as an exemplary mentor and “refuge in spiritual crisis.”
Peace Issues in the 21st Century Global Context
Title | Peace Issues in the 21st Century Global Context PDF eBook |
Author | John Duncan |
Publisher | Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Pages | 399 |
Release | 2017-08-21 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1527500799 |
Since the two Hague (Netherlands) multilateral peace conferences of 1899 and 1907, the fundamental issue of world peace and its long-term realization has engaged scholars, diplomats, statesmen, and students of international relations. This book presents a new endeavor in this direction through a collection of papers selected from the recent conferences of the Canadian Peace Research Association and independent scholars. Descriptive, analytical, constructive and balanced ideas and solutions in this text represent alternatives for the global community to be collectively secure and peaceful. This volume examines world peace in its foundational, descriptive, conceptual, and prescriptive aspects, and as a social and human concept in positive and negative contexts, including: the nonviolent perspective of peace; women theorists on peace and war; empowerment of women as peacemakers; and, peace research and education under siege. On violence and war, the topics included are the theory of violence, the new faces of war, including military robots, electromagnetic and information weapons, the cyber warfare and the militarization of neuroscience. In the area of case studies, Iran and nuclear deterrence, the Baha’i faith and Iran; the Western Sahara, Sudan and South Sudan, and the challenges of a Palestinian Nation are analysed. In addition, there is focus on the need to establish a Department of Peace in Canada and an attempt to seek establishment of world peace through direct democracy. This book will advance an understanding of the historic struggle and failures, as well as the accomplishments and shortcomings for peaceful change and a just world order. It will be of direct interest to students of political science, diplomacy, history, social science, international law, human rights, and other cognate disciplines.
Gandhi's Teachers
Title | Gandhi's Teachers PDF eBook |
Author | Satish Sharma |
Publisher | |
Pages | 274 |
Release | 2013 |
Genre | Abolitionists |
ISBN | 9788189854799 |
Gandhi the Man
Title | Gandhi the Man PDF eBook |
Author | Eknath Easwaran |
Publisher | ReadHowYouWant.com |
Pages | 226 |
Release | 2010-06-29 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1458778908 |
Gandhi the Man tells how Gandhi remade himself from a shy, tongue-tied, average little man to a Mahatma whose life can serve as an inspiration for our own transformation....