This unique book outlines and evaluates Gandhi s theory of Hindu regeneration. The author first considers Gandhi s analysis of the causes of Indian, and especially Hindu, degeneration and his efforts to determine and validate new principles of ethics. Parekh locates Gandhi in the tradition of reformist discourse developed by his nineteenth century predecessors, and highlights the way he both continued and broke with it. The volume then examines the way Gandhi went about reforming such areas of Indian life and thought as the ...
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This unique book outlines and evaluates Gandhi s theory of Hindu regeneration. The author first considers Gandhi s analysis of the causes of Indian, and especially Hindu, degeneration and his efforts to determine and validate new principles of ethics. Parekh locates Gandhi in the tradition of reformist discourse developed by his nineteenth century predecessors, and highlights the way he both continued and broke with it. The volume then examines the way Gandhi went about reforming such areas of Indian life and thought as the doctrines of violence, non-violence, the practice of untouchability, mobilisation of sexual energy to attain political objectives and Indianisation of the uniquely Western autobiographical genre of writing.
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Add this copy of Colonialism, Tradition and Reform: an Analysis of to cart. $175.00, very good condition, Sold by The Book Trader rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Philadelphia, PA, UNITED STATES, published 1989 by Sage Publications.
