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...Isabel Hofmeyr Gandhi's Hind Swaraj is a seminal text setting out the Mahatma's key ideas on nonviolence and civil disobedience. The book takes the form of a dialogue between a Reader and an Editor discussing questions of how British India should best obtain home rule. Most scholarship on the book...

...Jonathan Hyslop This article argues that Gandhi's book Hind Swaraj was centrally concerned with undermining the influence of the violent “terrorist” wing of nationalism on Indian political militants. In particular he sought to question the inspiration that Japan's military defeat of Russia in 1905...

...Keith Breckenridge Gandhi is conventionally viewed as a lifelong critic of Western modernity and colonial government. This essay shows that these views, which were famously expressed in Hind Swaraj , took form in his struggle against the Transvaal state between 1906 and 1908. Before that time...

... Patience, Inwardness, and Self-­Knowledge in Gandhi’s Hind Swaraj Uday S. Mehta Patience is a peculiar quality, especially when viewed from a moral or political perspective. By itself it appears to have no moral...

...Aishwary Kumar There is a peculiar absence of the untouchable in Hind Swaraj . The absence is particularly striking, given that the annihilation of untouchability, if not of caste, would subsequently become indispensable for Gandhi's preoccupations with equality. More than two decades after Hind...

...Pamila Gupta Gandhi's Hind Swaraj is analyzed as a statement of transnational politics and circulation, its ideas enabled by the Indian Ocean and applicable to Goa's independence from Portuguese colonial rule. Copyright 2011 by Duke University Press 2011 This article is written very much...

... at the same time as Gandhi’s Hind Swaraj. While becoming foundational of the twentieth-­century political in India, these texts also mark out critical ideological distinctions. For Tilak, the political was staked on the question of the enemy...

...-mastery. Copyright 2011 by Duke University Press 2011 CODA Might as Well Face It, We’re Addicted to Gandhi Ritu Birla Hind Swaraj grapples...

...: Hurst. Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand. 1997 . “Hind Swaraj” and other writings , edited by Anthony J. Parel. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ———. 2009 . An autobiography: The story of my experiments with truth . Translated by Mahadev Desai. New Delhi: Prakash Books. Gandhi, Rajmohan...

... for debating emergent interpretations and the interpretation of emergence. All three of the individuals whose conversa- tions led to this set of essays are historians, and so are several of the authors of the individual essays collected here. In this regard, this special issue on Hind Swaraj is part...

... of organization such as political parties or states, which in many respects seem inadequate to the problems posed by contemporary politics. Indeed, for Gandhi, the term swaraj, which was often translated as “political independence” or “home rule,” became meaningful and fertile in its strictest translation...

... to Hind Swaraj , the article proposes an alternative understanding of the emergence of this Hindu modern by examining Gandhi's particular articulation of the relation among ethics, aesthetics, and politics. Copyright 2011 by Duke University Press 2011 Appadurai, Arjun. 1998 . Dead certainty...

...-traumatic stress disorder in children exposed to violence. South African Medical Journal 87 : 1526 – 30. Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand. 1938 . Indian home rule or hind swaraj. Ahmadabad, India: Navajivan. ———. 1968a . The basic works. Vol. 4 of The selected works of Mahatma Gandhi. Ahmadabad...

... descend if only to clarify the crucial historical symbiosis between anticolonialism and democracy. So, for instance, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi’s proposal for unmediated self-­rule in his Hind Swaraj (1910) remains exemplary as a blueprint for the radical coexistence...

... of my experiments with truth . Translated from the original Gujarati by Mahadev Desai. Harmonds-worth, U.K.: Penguin Books. Garga, B. D. 2007 . From Raj to Swaraj: The non-fiction film in India . New Delhi: Penguin Books. Geduld, H. M. 1983 . Celluloid Mahatma. Humanist 43 , no. 3 : 37...

... of suffering unexceptional, unremarkable, or “common.” Thus the scenes of “anarchist accord” elaborated in Mahatma Gandhi’s Hind Swaraj set forth situations of relationality “outside the glare of history proper” (Gandhi, in this issue: 35...

... recognized that several of these undemocratic features have grown out of methods which we resorted to for attaining independence. Against the absolute right of purna swaraj [complete self-government] there could be no counter claims acceptable to the people under subjec- tion. The method...

... the Untouchables drawn into the Congress . . . and secondly . . . he wanted that the Untouchables should not oppose his movement of Swaraj . I don't think beyond that he had any real motive of uplift” (Ambedkar 2003 : 433). Ambedkar declared Gandhi a humbug (Rao 1995 : 119). Gandhi/-ism was popularized...

..., it was in 1908 that the Indian National Con- gress adopted swaraj (self-rule), “like that of the United Kingdom,” as its goal, and there was enormous pressure on the state to concede at least partial self- government.36 And, alongside the more moderate, “constitutional” approach of the Congress...

... there] are all pilgrims. They only catch and eat sahibs [Europeans, white people . . . Binod, the lawyer, said, “What wonder- ful tigers! Couldn’t a few be imported here? Swaraj [self-rule, indepen- dence, a word associated with Gandhi] would...