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... warfare. What kind of war demanded touching and sacrifice at one and the same time? Gandhi's elaboration of touchability revealed the radical paradox and limits of satyagraha , for these consecrated unequals were neither political antagonists nor imperial sovereigns who might simply be apprehended...

... Yajnik. Yajnik, like Gandhi, was from Gujarat, and he had spent more than a decade in Gandhi’s service — ­in ashrams and in public life. Yajnik had been instrumental in the early experiments by Gandhi to organize mill workers in Ahmadabad, as a sequel to the satyagraha in South Africa. The later...

... by Sikh leaders for the creation of a separate Punjabi subah (prov- ince), Nehru once again pointed to the obsolete nature of their political methods. Referring directly to the Gandhian technique of satyagraha, Nehru said: I cannot say that nobody should ever do satyagraha. It is possible...

...: The journalist . Bombay: Asia. Breckenridge, Keith. 2009 . Fingers and thumbs: Gandhi, Smuts, and the origins of satyagraha . Paper presented at the conference “Print Cultures, Nationalisms, and Publics of the Indian Ocean,” University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, January 15 – 17 . Dhupelia...

... from ushering into existence the new political philosophy of satyagraha, the pact led to a stunningly successful campaign of noncooperation. The resistance dis- solved during the first weeks of 1908 as Gandhi came to an agreement...

.... Itzkin, Eric. 2001 . Johannesburg: Birthplace of satyagraha . Johannesburg: Witwatersrand University Press. Lake, Marilyn, and Henry Reynolds. 2008 . Drawing the global colour line: White men's countries and the international challenge of racial equality . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press...

... and nonviolence. In the process Munna comes to realize the virtues of satyagraha, or truth-­force, and abandons his thuggish ways. Provoking a revival of interest in the Mahatma among a younger gener- ation of Indians, the film also signaled their unwillingness to identify Gandhi as a historical figure...

.... 1982. Seductive Mahatma. www.guardian.co.uk/film/filmblog/2008/apr/11/alifeinfilm . Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand. 1928 . Satyagraha in South Africa. Translated by Valji Govindji Desai. Ahmadabad, India: Navjivan. (Written in Gujarati in 1924.) ———. 1982 [1927]. An autobiography or the story...

... abolition of the caste system. The Crisis (1932) reproduced a news item from Soul Force titled “Satyagraha,” reporting that Gandhi would fast until “His Majesty's Government reaches an agreement with Hindus of all castes, terminating the decree of the Raj that the higher caste should constitute...

... form of civil disobedience (satyagraha) at a local liquor shop turned into a violent encounter between police and national- ists that left twenty-­three policemen burned to death inside a station.13 The event’s signification for Indian history lies, in many ways, outside the event itself, in what...

.... Gandhi , Mohandas K. 1928 . Satyagraha in South Africa . Ahmedabad: Navajivan Publishing House. Gandhi , Mohandas K. 1983 [1948]. Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth. New York: Dover. Gillion , K. L. 1977. The Fiji Indians: Challenge to European Dominance...

... Kumar, ed., Essays on Gandhian Politics: The Rowlatt Satyagraha of 1919 (London: Oxford Uni- versity Press, 1971). 3. I have used a number of works, primarily in Marathi but also in English, for my biographical information about Savarkar...