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Author: Bill Sutherland Publisher: Africa Research and Publications ISBN: Category : History Languages : en Pages : 304
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Foreword by Archbishop Desmond Tutu. An examination of the strategies and tactics used in achieving an end to colonialism, from the points of view of those who led the liberation movements in Africa. Includes material based on meetings and discussions with Ela Gandhi, Kenneth Kaunda, Julius Nyerere, Jerry Rawlins, Walter Sisulu, Kwame Nkrumah, Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, C L R James and many others.
Author: Bill Sutherland Publisher: Africa Research and Publications ISBN: Category : History Languages : en Pages : 304
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Foreword by Archbishop Desmond Tutu. An examination of the strategies and tactics used in achieving an end to colonialism, from the points of view of those who led the liberation movements in Africa. Includes material based on meetings and discussions with Ela Gandhi, Kenneth Kaunda, Julius Nyerere, Jerry Rawlins, Walter Sisulu, Kwame Nkrumah, Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, C L R James and many others.
Author: Bill Sutherland Publisher: Africa Research and Publications ISBN: 9780865437517 Category : Africa Languages : en Pages : 0
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Foreword by Archbishop Desmond Tutu. An examination of the strategies and tactics used in achieving an end to colonialism, from the points of view of those who led the liberation movements in Africa. Includes material based on meetings and discussions with Ela Gandhi, Kenneth Kaunda, Julius Nyerere, Jerry Rawlins, Walter Sisulu, Kwame Nkrumah, Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, C L R James and many others.
Author: Ashwin Desai Publisher: Stanford University Press ISBN: 0804797226 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 442
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A biography detailing Gandhi’s twenty-year stay in South Africa and his attitudes and behavior in the nation’s political context. In the pantheon of freedom fighters, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi has pride of place. His fame and influence extend far beyond India and are nowhere more significant than in South Africa. “India gave us a Mohandas, we gave them a Mahatma,” goes a popular South African refrain. Contemporary South African leaders, including Mandela, have consistently lauded him as being part of the epic battle to defeat the racist white regime. The South African Gandhi focuses on Gandhi’s first leadership experiences and the complicated man they reveal—a man who actually supported the British Empire. Ashwin Desai and Goolam Vahed unveil a man who, throughout his stay on African soil, stayed true to Empire while showing a disdain for Africans. For Gandhi, whites and Indians were bonded by an Aryan bloodline that had no place for the African. Gandhi’s racism was matched by his class prejudice towards the Indian indentured. He persistently claimed that they were ignorant and needed his leadership, and he wrote their resistances and compromises in surviving a brutal labor regime out of history. The South African Gandhi writes the indentured and working class back into history. The authors show that Gandhi never missed an opportunity to show his loyalty to Empire, with a particular penchant for war as a means to do so. He served as an Empire stretcher-bearer in the Boer War while the British occupied South Africa, he demanded guns in the aftermath of the Bhambatha Rebellion, and he toured the villages of India during the First World War as recruiter for the Imperial army. This meticulously researched book punctures the dominant narrative of Gandhi and uncovers an ambiguous figure whose time on African soil was marked by a desire to seek the integration of Indians, minus many basic rights, into the white body politic while simultaneously excluding Africans from his moral compass and political ideals. Praise for The South African Gandhi “In this impressively researched study, two South African scholars of Indian background bravely challenge political myth-making on both sides of the Indian Ocean that has sought to canonize Gandhi as a founding father of the struggle for equality there. They show that the Mahatma-to-be carefully refrained from calling on his followers to throw in their lot with the black majority. The mass struggle he finally led remained an Indian struggle.” —Joseph Lelyveld, author of Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle with India “This is a wonderful demonstration of meticulously researched, evocative, clear-eyed and fearless history writing. It uncovers a story, some might even call it a scandal, that has remained hidden in plain sight for far too long. The South African Gandhi is a big book. It is a serious challenge to the way we have been taught to think about Gandhi.” —Arundhati Roy, author of The God of Small Things
Author: Gene Sharp Publisher: Hassell Street Press ISBN: 9781014126894 Category : Languages : en Pages : 348
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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author: Judith Brown Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1139824848 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 295
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Even today, six decades after his assassination in January 1948, Mahatma Gandhi is still revered as the father of the Indian nation. His intellectual and moral legacy, and the example of his life and politics, serve as an inspiration to human rights and peace movements, political activists and students. This book, comprised of essays by renowned experts in the fields of Indian history and philosophy, traces Gandhi's extraordinary story. The first part of the book explores his transformation from a small-town lawyer during his early life in South Africa into a skilled political activist and leader of civil resistance in India. The second part is devoted to Gandhi's key writings and his thinking on a broad range of topics, including religion, conflict, politics and social relations. The final part reflects on Gandhi's image and on his legacy in India, the West, and beyond.
Author: Veena R. Howard Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield ISBN: 1793640378 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 373
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While there has been sustained interest in Gandhi’s methods and continued academic inquiry, Gandhi's Global Legacy: Moral Methods and Modern Challenges is unique in bringing together an interdisciplinary group of scholars who analyze Gandhi’s tactics, moral methods, and philosophical principles, not just in the fields of social and political activism, but in the areas of philosophy, religion, literature, economics, health, international relations, and interpersonal communication. Bringing this wide range of disciplinary backgrounds, the contributors provide fresh perspectives on Gandhi’s thought and practice as well as critical analyses of his work and its contemporary relevance. Edited by Veena R. Howard, this book reveals the need for reconstructing Gandhi’s ideas and moral methods in today’s context through a broad spectrum of crucial issues, including pacifism, health, communal living, gender dynamics, the role of anger, and peacebuilding. Gandhi’s methods have been refined and reimagined to fit different situations, but there remains a need to consider his concept of Sarvodaya (uplift of all), the importance of economic, gender, and racial equity, as well as the value of dialogue and dissenting voices in building a just society. The book points to new directions for the study of Gandhi in the globalized world.
Author: Thomas Weber Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 9781139456579 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 316
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Thomas Weber's book comprises a series of biographical reflections about people who influenced Gandhi, and those who were, in turn, influenced by him. Whilst previous literature tended to focus on Gandhi's political legacy, Weber's book explores the spiritual, social and philosophical resonances of these relationships, and it is with these aspects of the Mahatma's life in mind, that the author selects his central protagonists. These include friends such as Henry Polak and Hermann Kallenbach, who are not as well known as those usually cited, but who left a deep impression nevertheless, and motivated some of Gandhi's major life changes. Conversely, the work of luminaries such as E. F. Schumacher and Gene Sharp reveal the Mahatma's influence in arenas which are not traditionally associated with his thinking. Weber's book offers intriguing insights into the life and thought of one of the most significant figures of the twentieth century.
Author: Godfrey Mwakikagile Publisher: New Africa Press ISBN: 0980253411 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 740
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This is the fourth edition of 'Nyerere and Africa: End of an Era. It is also the largest and includes new material not found in previous editions. The work is a comprehensive study of the political career of President Julius Nyerere spanning half a century. The author takes a critical look at Nyerere's policies and influence in the domestic and international arenas for an objective evaluation of the life and times of one of the most influential leaders in the twentieth century. The major role he played in the liberation of southern Africa is just one of the subjects addressed by the author. He also provides insights into Nyerere's personality from some of the people who knew him best. Included in the book are interviews with some of the people who knew Nyerere since his childhood. Some of them were his teachers. And they outlived him. Others were his schoolmates and colleagues in government and when he was a teacher. And some of them were his students. Also included are interviews with some of his family members. This is an essential study of post-colonial Africa. It is also a study in political leadership and Cold War politics in the African context, among many other subjects addressed in the book which should serve as a reference text for scholars and laymen alike interested in Africa and the Third World in general.
Author: Mk Gandhi Publisher: ISBN: 9789390600427 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 178
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This book is for children. But I am sure that many grown-ups will read it with pleasure and profit.Already Gandhiji has become a legend. Those who have not seen him, especially the children of today, must think of him as a very unusual person, a superman who performed great deeds.
Author: Sarah Azaransky Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0190262206 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 297
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This work argues that the U.S. Civil Rights movement was part of a global wave of anti-colonial and independence movements. It reveals the international roots of the U.S. Civil Rights movement in the 1930s through the 1950s, tracing the links between Gandhi and King. -- Provided by the publisher.
Author: Bill Sutherland
Author: Bill Sutherland
Author: Bill Sutherland
Author: Ashwin Desai
Author: Gene Sharp
Author: Judith Brown
Author: Veena R. Howard
Author: Thomas Weber
Author: Godfrey Mwakikagile
Author: Mk Gandhi
Author: Sarah Azaransky