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100 _aGandhi, M. K.
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245 _aM.K. Gandhi's Hind Swaraj: a critical edition
260 _bOrient Blackswan Pvt. Ltd.
_aHyderabad
_c2019
300 _axxiv, various pages
365 _aINR
_b965.00
520 _aHind Swaraj, Gandhis seminal text in Gujarati, was written between 13 and 22 November 1909 aboard the Kildonan Castle bound for South Africa. It is a dialogue on modern civilisation, composed at a moment in modern history when the pre modern in the world beyond Europe could still be touched and spoken of, not as mere memory or longing but as a living form. As a mode of exposition and argument, Hind Swaraj stems from a cognitive universe that abides beyond the ambit of modernity. It is perhaps the only critique of the modern order that seeks an understanding of its salient facts. Its referents are tradition and modernity, the ancient and modern, ethical-moral and instrumental efficient. Hind Swaraj is a plea for non violence as a mode of self affirmation and resistance against oppression and injustice. For anyone engaged with the life and thought of Gandhi and with the question of the meaning of life within the modern order of things, Hind Swaraj remains a critical text.
650 _aNationalism
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650 _aPolitics and government
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650 _aGandhi, Mahatma
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