This unique book outlines and evaluates Gandhi's theory of Hindu regeneration. The author first considers Gandhi's analysis of the causes of Indian, and especially Hindu, degeneration and his efforts to determine and validate new principles of ethics. Parekh locates Gandhi in the tradition of reformist discourse developed by his nineteenth century predecessors, and highlights the way he both continued and broke with it. The volume then examines the way Gandhi went about reforming such areas of Indian life and thought as the doctrines of violence, non-violence, the practice of untouchability, mobilisation of sexual energy to attain political objectives and Indianisation of the uniquely Western autobiographical genre of writing.
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`a fine piece of analysis....Bhikhu Parekh is always specific and informatice and sometimes entertaining.' - New Statesman & Society
`Singularly free of lthe hyperbole and cant that can obscure Ghandi's complexity...(an) intelligent response to a great Indian of a practical Indian with knowledge of and sympathy for both Indian and Western political, social and religious ideas and institutions.' - Observer
`This is a fine book, and a most welcome one; for despite the multiplicity of writings about Ghandhi, there is no major exploration of where this great modern Hindu stood in relation to Hindu tradition as he struggled to help his country and its civilization to respond to the impact of centuries of alien domination, which in its latest manifestation meant the British raj. Professor Parekh, an Indian political scientist.... is well positioned to undertake this task and to expound Gandhi to English-speakers.' - The Journal of Commonwealth and Comparative Politics
`... this study deals with the way Gandhi comes to terms with Hinduism and the transformation it undergoes in his hands.' - The Round Table
`Parekh... the author of Gandhi's Political Philosophy presents an exceptionally important contribution to the literature on non-violence, Gandhi, modern India and methods of political discourse analysis.... Parekh's style is elegant and his interpretations shine like diamonds.' - Choice
`This is a fine book, and a most welcome one....' - Journal of Commonwealth Comparative Politics
`Bhikhu Parekh's excellent book sets out Ghandi's main ideas in a clear and cogent form notably lacking in the original.' - Political Studies
`Parekh's fascinating characterization of Ghandi's Autobiography as a `biography of Ghandi written by the Mahatma', suggests a tension in the Mahatma's psyche that often surfaced....perhaps inadvertently, Parekh challenges the value of analysing Ghandi's political discourse.' - he Annals of the American Academy
`Parekh's book covers a wide area, ranging over Ghandi's view on British rule, non-violence, caste, untouchability, sex and so on....Rarely has Ghandi been so closely examined under the microscope of a political scientist. Parekh's analysis is once sympathetic and critical.' - The Indian Economic and Social History Review
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This review is from: Colonialism, Tradition, and Reform: An Analysis of Gandhi's Political Discourse (Paperback)
Bhikhu Parekh's Colonialism, Tradition, and Reform is an important study that with depth examines Gandhi's still topical thinking. With intense concentration on the prediaments and quandaries faced by Gandhi, and an ability to interpret for a contemporary readership the settings in which he was working, Parekh's is a fresh, insightful, and tightly written analysis that should be read by anyone who has pondered the continuing relevance of Gandhi's thinking on political power, popular mobilization, and nonviolent action. Parekh's real skill is in contextualizing Gandhi's confrontations with the dilemmas that confronted him upon his return to India, and in probing the complexities of his views on contentious issues such as violence and untouchability.
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