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Gandhi: Pioneer of Nonviolent Social Change, 1st edition

Published by Pearson (November 8, 2011) © 2012

  • Tara Sethia
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For world history survey courses (after 1500) and courses on modern India, Gandhi, peace and nonviolence, conflict resolution and sustainable development.

Examines the life and work of Gandhi within a global context, with an emphasis on how Gandhi's ideas and life shaped the 20th-century world.

Gandhi: Pioneer of Nonviolent Social Change, part of the Library of World Biography Series, is aimed primarily at undergraduates with little or no background knowledge of Gandhi or his ideas. This book covers the important aspects of his life and the major components of his philosophy. Through an examination of Gandhi's life and legacy, particularly as a pioneer in the quest for justice and freedom through nonviolent means, this biography reveals lessons that inform our world--both present and future.

Each interpretive biography in the Library of World Biography Series focuses on a person whose actions and ideas either significantly influenced world events or whose life reflects important themes and developments in global history.

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Introduction

 

CHAPTER 1: FORMATIVE YEARS

 

CHAPTER 2: TRANSFORMATIVE YEARS

 

CHAPTER 3: SATYAGRAHA IN SOUTH AFRICA

 

CHAPTER 4: HIND SWARAJ: GANDHI‘S VISION OF FREEDOM

 

CHAPTER 5: INTRODUCTION OF SATYAGRAHA IN INDIA

 

CHAPTER 6: NONCOOPERATION AND THE 1920S

 

CHAPTER 7: CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE AND THE 1930S

 

CHAPTER 8: QUIT INDIA TO 1947

 

CHAPTER 9: FASTS: SATYAGRAHA TO THE LAST

 

CHAPTER 10: GANDHI IN OUR WORLD: LEGACIES

 

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Tara Sethia is Professor of History, founder and Director of Ahimsa Center at California State Polytechnic University , Pomona, where she has helped establish on campus a degree program for a Minor in Nonviolence Studies.  In addition to teaching courses dealing with India and Southeast Asia, Women and South Asia, and nonviolence, she has also offered a seminar on Gandhi and teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in World history. Her recent publications include an edited book ,Ahimsa , Anekanta and Jainism (Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass , 2004); and articles on Vardhamana Mahavira , Mohandas K. Gandhi , Nonviolence and Social Change for the Berkshire Enclyopedia of World History (2005). She has also made numerous presentations at national and international conferences on a variety of topics , including peace and nonviolence. Sethia is the recipient of several grants, awards and honors, including Gold and Silver Medals from the University of Rajasthan, India. She was the principal investigator and director of Program on India and China for K-12 Educators, funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, 1995-98.Currently, she is editing a volume of essays, Rediscovering Gandhian Wisdom: Building a Peaceful Future (forthcoming, Penguin India).

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