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Delhi: Oxford UP, 1985.
Parekh, Bhikhu. There are, besides, literally hundreds of anthologies of Gandhi’s writings, and in his own lifetime Navajivan Press as well as other publishers brought out collections of Gandhi’s writings on particular subjects, such as nature cure, Hindu-Muslim relations, village reconstruction, non-violence, and so on.
He refrained from active participation in politics for the next several years, but in 1930 launched a new civil disobedience campaign against the colonial government’s tax on salt, which greatly affected Indian’s poorest citizens.
A Divided Movement
In 1931, after British authorities made some concessions, Gandhi again called off the resistance movement and agreed to represent the Congress Party at the Round Table Conference in London.
He particularly advocated the manufacture of khaddar, or homespun cloth, in order to replace imported textiles from Britain. A study with a more expansive conception of Gandhian politics than ordinarily encountered in the literature.
On the occasion of the celebrations for the 150th anniversary of the Unification of Italy, the Mazzinian Institute - Museum of the Risorgimento proposed a series of initiatives aimed at presenting the rich historical, artistic and documentary heritage of the civic collections, promoted in collaboration with public and private institutions active in the field, so that the celebrations became an opportunity for common reflection on our history, also in relation to different cultures.
One of the themes presented was Gandhi and the Italians.
The Origins of Nonviolence: Tolstoy and Gandhi in their Historical Settings. Champaran and Gandhi: Planters, Peasants and Gandhian Politics. Gandhi and Non-Violence. Fighting with Gandhi. Rev. ed., Berkeley: University of California Press, 1971.
Borman, William. Gandhi and the Good Life. Extremely good for the ‘grammar’ of satyagraha.
Erikson, Erik H. Gandhi’s Truth: On the Origins of Militant Nonviolence.
He supported the British war effort in World War I but remained critical of colonial authorities for measures he felt were unjust. When a European magistrate in Durban asked him to take off his turban, he refused and left the courtroom. Among the more creative anthologies, the following readily come to mind: Pushpa Joshi, ed., Gandhi on Women (Ahmedabad: Navajivan Publishing House, 1998, in association with Centre for Women’s Development Studies, New Delhi; cf.
New Delhi: Sage, 1989.
Parekh, Bhikhu. New Delhi: Promilla & Co., 1978.
Hutchins, Francis G. India’s Revolution: Gandhi and the Quit India Movement. That train journey served as a turning point for Gandhi, and he soon began developing and teaching the concept of satyagraha (“truth and firmness”), or passive resistance, as a way of non-cooperation with authorities.
The Birth of Passive Resistance
In 1906, after the Transvaal government passed an ordinance regarding the registration of its Indian population, Gandhi led a campaign of civil disobedience that would last for the next eight years.
University of Notre Dame Press, 1983.
Dalton, Dennis. [Compare: Rajendra Prasad, Satyagraha in Champaran (2nd ed., Ahmedabad: Navajivan Publishing House, 1949) and D. G. Tendulkar, Gandhi in Champaran (New Delhi: Publications Division, Government of India, 1957).]
Prasad, Nageshwar, ed. Johannesburg: Ravan Press, 1985.
Delhi: Gandhi Peace Foundation, 1985.
Rao, K. L. Seshagiri. At the age of 19, Mohandas left home to study law in London at the Inner Temple, one of the city’s four law colleges.
The three-volume anthology edited by Raghavan Iyer, The Moral and Political Writings of Mahatma Gandhi (New York and Delhi: Oxford UP, 1989) is not only more manageable but is superbly edited, and except for specialists seeking to write on Gandhi at length, will suffice as a representative and thoughtful selection of Gandhi’s voluminous writings.