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Ramachandra Guha

Also known as: RAMACHANDRA GUHA, Guha Ramachandra

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Dehradun, India
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By the holy waters of the Jumna, near New Delhi, almost a million people waited in the sun for the funeral procession to reach the cremation grounds.

— from Gandhi

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Gandhi Before India

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A first volume of a series detailing the life and work of the influential political advocate draws on private papers and other untapped sources to cover his birth in 1869 through his upbringing in Gujarat, discussing his London education and decades as a lawyer in South Africa. "In 1893, when Gandhi set sail for South Africa, he was a twenty-three-year-old lawyer who had failed to establish himself in India. In this remarkable biography, the author makes clear the fundamental ways in which Gandhi's ideas were shaped before his return to India in 1915. It was during his years in England and South Africa, Guha shows us, that Gandhi came to understand the nature of imperialism and racism; and in South Africa that he forged the philosophy and techniques that would undermine and eventually overthrow the British Raj. Gandhi Before India gives us equally vivid portraits of the man and the world he lived in: a world of sharp contrasts among the coastal culture of his birthplace, High Victorian London, and colonial South Africa. It explores in abundant detail Gandhi's experiments with dissident cults such as the Tolstoyans; his friendships with radical Jews, heterodox Christians and devout Muslims; his enmities and rivalries; and his often overlooked failures as a husband and father. It tells the dramatic, profoundly moving story of how Gandhi inspired the devotion of thousands of followers in South Africa as he mobilized a cross-class and inter-religious coalition, pledged to non-violence in their battle against a brutally racist regime." -- Publisher's description.

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The unquiet woods

1989

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"This new, expanded edition of The Unquiet Woods, Ramachandra Guha's study of peasant movements against commercial forestry, offers a new epilogue that brings the story of Himalayan social protest up to date, reflecting the Chipko movement's continuing influence in the wider world. A new appendix charts the progress of environmental history in India, and both bibliography and index have been revised and updated."--BOOK JACKET.

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Gandhi

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Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869–1948) und seine gewaltfrei-revolutionären Massenkampagnen in Indien gegen die britische Kolonialmacht sind noch immer eine weltweite Inspirationsquelle und ein emanzipatorischer Gegenpol zu gewaltverherrlichenden und kriegstreiberischen Tendenzen. In diesem Buch werden staatskritische und pro-anarchistische Stellungnahmen Gandhis in Texten aus drei Jahrzehnten dokumentiert. Auf dieser inhaltlichen Grundlage wird auch auf die Vorwürfe eingegangen, Gandhi sei angeblich „Rassist“ oder „Verteidiger des Kastensystems“ gewesen. Dass diese Vorwürfe haltlos sind, wird durch die hier vorliegenden Texte deutlich. Sie zeigen, wie sich Gandhis Positionen entwickelten und radikalisierten: bereits ab 1908 in Südafrika im Kollektiv mit jüdischen Gewaltfreien, ganz besonders aber während der drei Jahrzehnte des anti-kolonialen Kampfes in Indien. Abschließend wird anhand der aktuellen sozialen Bewegung für Landrechte am Beispiel von Ekta Parishad gezeigt, dass sich diese auf den Salzmarsch Gandhis bezieht und die gewaltfrei-libertäre Tradition noch immer relevant für die Kämpfe von unten im heutigen Indien ist.

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