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Gandhi in Modern World
Gandhi was a unique and iconic personality. He changed the course of history and gave world a non-violent technique of protest, change, liberation and transformation. Gandhi put ancient wisdom in modern form. Gandhi made history, and set the agenda for generations to come. Gandhi was a great man in every sense and many ways. His concerns were contemporary but timeless and borderless. Gandhi changed the world he lived in and gave new direction to what is now known as Swaraj. Gandhi is so much an inseparable part of our modern history that we cannot imagine Indian history without him. Gandhi worked all through his life to liberate India from British colonialism; but this mission of his was onl...
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Mahatma Gandhi on Education
Gandhi's concept of education is creative, original, revolutionary, skill development and based on societal need. It is not based on intellectual romanticism rather beyond Marxism, Macaulay, Gurukul and Madarsha. It was unique, innovative, need base and fundamental and provide an alternative. Gandhi's selected original writings and speeches on education have been reproduced to understand his concept of education and its relevance even in contemporary world. These writings and speeches will be an eye-opener for the readers as it will clear the myths about Gandhi's experimentation on education. Never before, writings and speeches of Gandhi on education are placed at one place. These writings and speeches are reproduced here without any distortion and alteration so that the readers draw their own conclusions. I am sure that the book 'Mahatma Gandhi on Education' will open new vistas of research and proper understanding of Gandhi on critical issue of making of individual, society and nation.
Mahatma Gandhi on Moral Bankruptcy
During struggle for Swaraj, Gandhi felt and observed that upholding ethics is necessary for India and every Indian. He rightly said that British conquest of India is because of collapse of morality and ethics. So, time to time, Gandhi writes on the subject to re-establish morality at individual, societal and national level. Without transforming individual, one cannot change the society and nation. One cannot transform India without transforming every Indian. This is most appropriate time when one can realize that Mahatma Gandhi's views which are more relevant than ever before or when he was alive. Gandhi is now part of history and his words belong to humanity. In this book, original writing of Gandhi gives us the crystal clear understanding of the subject without any distortion. A reader friendly book on Moral Bankruptcy is useful and worthwhile contribution on the subject with its immense current and future significance not only for Indian politicians and public servants, but also for the others.
Society, Politics, and Development in North East India
Contributed articles chiefly with reference to rural development in Northeastern India; includes articles on cultural history of the region.
A History of Intoxication
This volume unearths the emerging pattern of consumption of opium in colonial Assam and the creation of drug-dependency in a social context. It analyses the competing forces of the empire which played a key role in the production and distribution of opium; national politics alongside international drug diplomacy and how these together shaped the discourse of opium in Assam; the wider implications of opium production and consumption in the agrarian economy and the narrative of the nationalist critique of intoxication. Please note: Taylor & Francis does not sell or distribute the Hardback in India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.
Between Ethnography and Fiction
Between Ethnography and Fiction brings together essays by sixteen scholars of various disciplines to re-examine the work of Verrier Elwin in the fields of tribal literature, tribe and non-tribe relationship, tribal development policies, missionaries and conversion, myths and legends, art and craft, etc. Elwin is undoubtedly one of the most controversial as well as influential anthropologists of the twentieth century. The essays included here are therefore both appreciative and critical.
Indian Books Today
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