... 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...

... like boycotts will work in Israel/Palestine. Or really the question might be whether 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...

... steering collective action away from a clash for which they deemed the country ill prepared. A similar logic 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...

..., 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...

... the work that enslaved the Bhangis. Mahatma Gandhi sought to free Bhangis from their pejorative name by rechristening them Harijans, or “children of God.” He unified them and worked on improving their welfare, to which end he organized the Harijan Sevak Sangh in 1932.83 Focusing on improving...

... 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...

..., 23, 24. 36. Romulo, The Meaning of Bandung, 22. 37. The following passage on Gandhi from Romulo’s posthumous tribute to Nehru might be indicative of Romulo’s view of India’s contribution to nationalism in the postwar period, and most likely at the time of Bandung as well...

... 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...

... and control, 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...

... 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...

... 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 Mohandas Gandhi collections), and the still-­developing...

... 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...

... 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...

... 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...

..., 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...

..., there is a long, interconnected (and fraught) his- tory, dating back to Mohandas Gandhi’s pre – World War I South African sojourn, between Indian anticolonialism and struggles for freedom in South Africa. In the 1940s and 1950s, in the wake of violence between Indians and Africans in Durban, South African...