The Meanings of Gandhi / / ed. by Paul F. Power.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Hawaii Press Archive eBook-Package Pre-2000
• MitwirkendeR: Embree, Ainslie T.,; Hoeber Rudolph, Susanne,; Kumar Bose, Nirmal,; Levi, Werner,; Parel, Anthony,; Potter, Karl H.,; Power, Paul F.,; Ram Nanda, Bal,; Smith, Donald E.,; Stuart Nelson, William,
• HerausgeberIn: Power, Paul F.,
• Place / Publishing House: Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2021]; ©1971
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: East-West Center Books
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (210 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Introduction --; Gandhi the Man and Public Actor --; 1. Gandhi and Nehru --; 2. Gandhi's Lieutenants—Varieties of Followership --; 3. The Function of Gandhi in Indian Nationalism --; The Ideas of Gandhi and Their Transmission --; 4. The Theory and Practice of Sarvodaya --; 5. Explorations in Gandhi's Theory of Nonviolence --; 6. Gandhi and Indian Foreign Policy --; Comparative Perspectives --; 7. Religious Revolutionaries of the Third World: Gandhi, Gandhians, and Guerrilleros --; 8. Gandhian Values and the American Civil Rights Movement --; 9. Mahatma Gandhi and Civil Disobedience --; 10. Gandhian Satyagraha and Machiavellian Virtù
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780824885342; 9783110564150
• DOI: 10.1515/9780824885342
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Paul F. Power.

Some people see Mahatma Gandhi as a moral teacher of timeless and universal importance. Others believe that he was a mixture of the saint and the politician who, by combining the two roles, slighted one or the other. Reformers praise him as an inspirational and tactical resource for efforts to end war and social injustice. Marxists criticize him for not demanding an end to private wealth. Sympathizers with the Third World credit Gandhi for his early and effective contributions to the personal dignity and national independence of colonial peoples. Those in India and the west who have grown to maturity since Gandhi's assassination in 1949 may think of him as a prophet of village simplicity and the father of civil disobedience. Some may question or be confused by his teachings about economic and sexual matters, but most interpretations would agree that the Indian leader was an extraordinary person and public figure whose impact is still felt and will be felt for decades to come in many parts of the world.