Gandhi's dilemma : nonviolent principles and nationalist power / Manfred B. Steger.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Steger, Manfred B., 1961-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nonviolence.

Passive resistance.

Gandhi, Mahatma, 1869-1948.

Gandhi.

Nationalism--India.

Nationalism.

India.

Physical Description:

xii, 232 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : St. Martin's Press, 2000.

Contents:

1. The Promise of British Liberalism 15

2. Confronting Difference and Exclusion: Gandhi's Struggle for Recognition in South Africa 41

3. Gandhi's Critique of Liberalism: Exposing the Immorality of Modern Civilization 67

4. Imagining India: Gandhi's Construction of Nonviolent Nationalism 89

5. Purifying Self and Nation: Gandhi's Experiments with Self-Control 111

6. Reconciling Nonviolent Principles with Nationalist Power? Three Cases 141

Epilogue: A Nonviolent Nationalism? 181.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [197]-227) and index.

ISBN:

0312221770

OCLC:

43884894