... domination in China influenced Smith's decision to depict racialism and racism in the United States as social and psychological harms. Her time in the Far East also brought Smith into contact with the writings of Mahatma Gandhi and Rabindranath Tagore, and Gandhi's ideas in particular would affect the way...

..., in Karam’s view a better path was available: “The prophet of India, the Mahatma Gandhi, discovered another procedure for combatting injustice. He turned to civil disobedience, to boycotting and to striking. These are the weapons of the weak. These are the weapons that the tired and unhappy aim against...

... in 1885) had not done its duty, and it was in the dias- pora—in the United States with the Ghadarites and in South Africa with the min- ers and cane workers mobilized alongside M. K. Gandhi—that the fiery spirit of mass organization of Indians took hold...

... they can work without global publicity, as George Orwell pointed out. In a 1949 essay on Gandhi’s nonviolence, he noted that the nonviolent tactics employed against British rule were effective because Gandhi “was always able to command publicity,” thus, in Gandhi’s phrase, “arousing the world” against...

... was synchronically in operation in India. When Gandhi announced—a mere two years before Palestine’s fifth national conference—the launch of the noncooperation movement, he noted that “half of India is too weak to offer violent resistance and the other half is unwilling to do so. I have therefore suggested the remedy...

..., including associates of Gandhi’s, and it is to their histories that those who have looked for the signifi cance of the congress have most frequently turned. It touches on a wide history of activism and an assorted set of political persuasions. The central point...

... Mollin | The Limits of Egalitarianism 117 They also believed that they could make a unique contribution to black civil rights by deploying powerful new methods of protest and action. Since the early 1930s, pacifists kept a close watch on Mohandas Gandhi’s...

... of Nehru’s unique foray into world history at a time when it was far from being institutionalized as a subject of disci- plined study.9 World history only has place for the likes of Nehru as men of action, not as originators of ideas. Even Mohandas Gandhi, in many respects the most arresting and original...

..., whether for imperial authorities or nationalist radicals, Elleke Boehmer’s essay on the South African Gandhi and the Irish Nivedita serves as a wise cautionary tale for scholars engaged in Indo-Irish comparison. While South Africa proved transformative for Gandhi’s political development...

... autobiography. Gandhi’s An Autobiography, or my Experiments with Truth (1927) is a remarkable text; it not only introduces students to a figure with whom many are already familiar, but the ways in which it both reveals and disguises Gandhi provide excellent examples of the need for critical reading...

... out of the failure of Home Rule in Ireland, World War I, and the postwar colonial settlements, the possibilities for a double consciousness, as proposed by a Roger Casement, a Gandhi, or a Du Bois, became tenuous indeed. Increasingly, the Edwardian would...

...”. Clayborne Carson, SNCC and the Black Awakening ofthe 1960s, 1-215. Dave Dellinger, ”Ten Days in Jail” (1961), ”Gandhi’s Heirs” (1962), from Revoh- tiona y Non-Violence. Martin Luther King, Jr./ ”Letter from Birmingham Jail,” from why WeCan’t Wait (1963). In-class quiz February 27...

... Education Trust (www.cvet.org.za), Wits University Historical Papers (www.historicalpapers.wits.ac.za), the South African History Archive (www.saha.org.za), South African History Online (www.sahistory. org.za), the Gandhi-­Luthuli Documentation Centre (scnc.ukzn.ac.za) (with global scope via its...

... left the min- istry for a fellowship at Oriel College, Oxford, and a university lec- tureship in Oriel Bengali. Gandhi and Nehru were among the steady flow of Indian visitors to their Boars Hill home, while John Masefield, Gilbert Murray and Sir Arthur Evans were neighbors. (Nehru taught...

... by his direct correspondence with Tolstoy, whose own intentional community Yasnaya Polyana also contributed to Gandhi’s vision for Sabarmati Ashram a few years later. Idealized village republics such as these, with their idyllic pastoralism and cultural effl...

... constructed through jux- tapositions between Fanon and Camus over the question of Algeria, and Fanon and Mohandas Gandhi over the question of violent versus nonviolent resistance. The section film for week 7, Gillo Pontecorvo’s The Battle of Algiers (1965), dovetails with these themes and readings...

... incorporation into the history of antiapartheid is the Indian subcontinent. As the debate on Afro-­Asian solidarity between Dilip M. Menon and Antoinette Burton in our “(Re)Views” section suggests, there is a long, interconnected (and fraught) his- tory, dating back to Mohandas Gandhi’s pre – World War I...

..., Sugar and Slavery in Puerto Rico (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1984). 2. Vijaya Teelock, Bitter Sugar: Sugar and Slavery in Nineteenth-Century Mauritius (Moka, Mauritius: Mahatma Gandhi Institute Press, 1998); and Teelock, A Select Guide to Sources on Slavery (Bell...