Gandhi the Organiser. How He Shaped a Nationwide Rebellion: India 1915-1922

Download or read book Gandhi the Organiser. How He Shaped a Nationwide Rebellion: India 1915-1922 written by Bob Overy and published by . This book was released on 2019-09-09 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a unique contribution in two ways. Firstly, it puts the focus on the least understood element of the Indian anti-colonial liberation struggle, yet the one emphasized by Gandhi himself: the constructive program, or the building up of self-governed institutions and skills, enabling real autonomy from colonial rule and local empowerment of ordinary Indians. Secondly, it goes into the empirical detail of key campaigns of the liberation struggle, showing how the constructive work in a dynamic way connected with the resistance against British colonial rule. Bob Overy gives us inspiring, incisive and well-articulated pathways for transforming Gandhi's legacy into contemporary action, notably the interdependence between programmes of constructive work and satyagraha. Across the world, I am sure, practitioners and activists, especially for social and climate justice, will benefit."