Gandhi's Experiments with Truth

Essential Writings by and about Mahatma Gandhi

Edited by Richard L. Johnson

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Publication date:

17 November 2005

Length of book:

384 pages

Publisher

Lexington Books

ISBN-13: 9780739155448

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.

Chapter 1 Gandhi's Experiments with Truth: Private Life, Satyagraha, and the Constructive Programme
Chapter 2 Gandhi's Life and Thought
Chapter 3 From Childhood to Satyagrahi
Chapter 4 Return to India
Chapter 5 Selections from Writings by Gandhi
Chapter 6 An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth
Chapter 7 Satyagraha in South Africa
Chapter 8 Hind Swaraj (Indian Home Rule) and Related Writings
Chapter 9 Constructive Programme: Its Meaning and Place and Related Writings
Chapter 10 Short Moral and Political Writings
Chapter 11 Writings about Gandhi
Chapter 12
Chapter A. Gandhi's Practice and Theory of Satyagraha
Chapter 13 The Birth of Gandhian Satyagraha: Nonviolent Resistance and Soul Force
Chapter 14 Gandhian Freedoms and Self-Rule
Chapter 15 Gandhi's Politics
Chapter 16 Satyagraha, the Only Way to Stop Terrorism
Chapter 17 Gandhi and Human Rights: In Search of True Humanity
Chapter 18 Gandhi's Constructive Programme
Chapter 19
Chapter B. Gandhi's Impact on the World
Chapter 20 Gandhi in the Mind of America
Chapter 21 The Availability of Gandhi: Toward a Neo-Gandhian Praxis
Chapter 22 Gandhi, Contemporary Political Thinking, and Self-Other Relations
Chapter 23 Gandhi's Legacy
Chapter 24 Gandhi's Contribution to Global Nonviolent Awakening
Chapter 25 Gandhi, Nonviolence, and the Struggle against War

Those looking for an introduction to Gandhi, seasoned nonviolent activists, and long time students of Gandhi will all find this to be a remarkable collection. Johnson has brought together key selections from Gandhi?s writings with insightful essays by avariety of Gandhian scholars on Gandhi?s nonviolence, views on religion, methods of political, economic, and cultural change and his continuing influence and relevance for today. I cannot think of a better book that unites Gandhi?s own words with very readable essays covering a breadth of topics on Gandhi?s life and thought. Johnson's book makes clear again Gandhi's importance as a resource for creating a more just and peaceful world...