Between Mao And Gandhi

Author : Ches Thurber
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108934412
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Between Mao and Gandhi written by Ches Thurber and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-09-30 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Eastern Europe to South Africa to the Arab Spring, nonviolent action has proven capable of overthrowing autocratic regimes and bringing about revolutionary political change. How do dissidents come to embrace a nonviolent strategy in the first place? Why do others rule it out in favor of taking up arms? Despite a new wave of attention to the effectiveness and global impact of nonviolent movements, our understanding of their origins and trajectories remains limited. Drawing on cases from Nepal, Syria, India and South Africa, as well as global cross-national data, this book details the processes through which challenger organizations come to embrace or reject civil resistance as a means of capturing state power. It develops a relational theory, showing how the social ties that underpin challenger organizations shape their ability and willingness to attempt regime change using nonviolent means alone.

Author : Ratan Das
Publisher : Sarup & Sons
ISBN 13 : 9788176254588
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gandhi and Mao written by Ratan Das and published by Sarup & Sons. This book was released on 2004 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comparative study of Mahatma Gandhi, 1869-1948, Indian nationalist and statesman and Mao Tsê-tung, 1893-1976, Chinese Marxist theorist.

Author : Jayantanuja Bandyopadhyaya
Publisher : Bombay : Allied Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mao Tse-tung and Gandhi: Perspectives on Social Transformation written by Jayantanuja Bandyopadhyaya and published by Bombay : Allied Publishers. This book was released on 1973 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Diane M. Jones
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 688 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Comparative Study of the Social Visions of M. K. Gandhi and Mao Zedong written by Diane M. Jones and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Anthony R. DeLuca
Publisher : Praeger
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gandhi, Mao, Mandela, and Gorbachev written by Anthony R. DeLuca and published by Praeger. This book was released on 2000-05-30 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines how four charismatic personalities, Gandhi, Mandela, Mao, and Gorbachev, led movements that remade the world through their own selfless inspiration, dynamic political leadership, and genuine moral courage.

Author : Ramachandra Guha
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 038553230X
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gandhi Before India written by Ramachandra Guha and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2014-04-15 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is the first volume of a magisterial biography of Mohandas Gandhi that gives us the most illuminating portrait we have had of the life, the work and the historical context of one of the most abidingly influential—and controversial—men in modern history. Ramachandra Guha—hailed by Time as “Indian democracy’s preeminent chronicler”—takes us from Gandhi’s birth in 1869 through his upbringing in Gujarat, his two years as a student in London and his two decades as a lawyer and community organizer in South Africa. Guha has uncovered myriad previously untapped documents, including private papers of Gandhi’s contemporaries and co-workers; contemporary newspapers and court documents; the writings of Gandhi’s children; and secret files kept by British Empire functionaries. Using this wealth of material in an exuberant, brilliantly nuanced and detailed narrative, Guha describes the social, political and personal worlds inside of which Gandhi began the journey that would earn him the honorific Mahatma: “Great Soul.” And, more clearly than ever before, he elucidates how Gandhi’s work in South Africa—far from being a mere prelude to his accomplishments in India—was profoundly influential in his evolution as a family man, political thinker, social reformer and, ultimately, beloved leader. 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. Researched with unequaled depth and breadth, and written with extraordinary grace and clarity, Gandhi Before India is, on every level, fully commensurate with its subject. It will radically alter our understanding and appreciation of twentieth-century India’s greatest man.

Author : Ved Mehta
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 024150502X
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mahatma Gandhi and His Apostles written by Ved Mehta and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2021-02-04 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ved Mehta's brilliant Mahatma Gandhi and his Apostles provides an unparalleled portrait of the man who lead India out of its colonial past and into its modern form. Travelling all over India and the rest of the world, Mehta gives a nuanced and complex, yet vividly alive, portrait of Gandhi and of those men and women who were inspired by his actions.

Author : Betsy Kuhn
Publisher : Twenty-First Century Books
ISBN 13 : 0761363548
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Force Born of Truth written by Betsy Kuhn and published by Twenty-First Century Books. This book was released on 2010-08-01 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gandhi's Salt March united all Indians in peaceful protest for independence. Yet British forces met them with violence and imprisonment. In this story of India's struggle for freedom, we'll learn how Gandhi’s philosophy of nonviolent action overpowered the British government. And we'll witness how Gandhi's actions influenced civil rights movements around the world. "With this salt, I am rocking the foundations of an Empire."―Mohandas Gandhi, 1930 On April 6, 1930, Mohandas Gandhi stood on the coast of the Arabian Sea in western India. He and his followers had walked 241 miles (388 kilometers) to reach this place. Now, at the end of their long journey, Gandhi made a simple gesture marking the beginning of a revolution: he reached down, grabbed a clump of sea salt, and raised it overhead. This signaled to all Indians to embark on a course of civil disobedience―making and selling their own salt. At this time, India had been ruled by the British Empire for more than 200 years. The British had taken control of India's main industries, including its highly profitable salt manufacturing process. By law, Indians were not allowed to produce their own salt―or to even pick up a lump of sea salt. Everyone in India, no matter how poor, paid a salt tax to the British government.

Author : Andrew Kennedy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139501933
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The International Ambitions of Mao and Nehru written by Andrew Kennedy and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-12-29 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why do leaders sometimes challenge, rather than accept, the international structures that surround their states? In The International Ambitions of Mao and Nehru, Andrew Kennedy answers this question through in-depth studies of Chinese foreign policy under Mao Zedong and Indian foreign policy under Jawaharlal Nehru. Drawing on international relations theory and psychological research, Kennedy offers a new theoretical explanation for bold leadership in foreign policy, one that stresses the beliefs that leaders develop about the 'national efficacy' of their states. He shows how this approach illuminates several of Mao and Nehru's most important military and diplomatic decisions, drawing on archival evidence and primary source materials from China, India, the United States and the United Kingdom. A rare blend of theoretical innovation and historical scholarship, The International Ambitions of Mao and Nehru is a fascinating portrait of how foreign policy decisions are made.

Author : Ramachandra Guha
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674365410
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Makers of Modern Asia written by Ramachandra Guha and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2014-08-29 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The twenty-first century has been dubbed the Asian Century. Highlighting diverse thinker-politicians rather than billionaire businessmen, Makers of Modern Asia presents eleven leaders who theorized and organized anticolonial movements, strategized and directed military campaigns, and designed and implemented political systems.