Reading Gandhi in Two Tongues and other essyas
Material type: TextPublication details: I.I.A.S. Shimla 2012Description: 214pISBN: 978-8179860960Subject(s): Criticism | Essays | Gandhiji | Interpretation | Mahatma Gandhi | Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi | SociologyDDC classification: 954.035 Summary: Reading Gandhi in Two Tongues and other essays explores M.K. Gandhi’s bilingual modes of thought. The essays collected here drawn upon the Ashramic intellectual tradition of understanding Gandhi by placing his politics, his spiritual strivings, his constructive work and his practices of fasting, of brahmacharya and his desire to be a satyagrahi and sthitapragyna at the centre of his key texts. This act of reading Gandhi is akin to telling the beads, comforting and meditative in its repetitivenessItem type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Reading Gandhi in Two Tongues and other essays explores M.K. Gandhi’s bilingual modes of thought. The essays collected here drawn upon the Ashramic intellectual tradition of understanding Gandhi by placing his politics, his spiritual strivings, his constructive work and his practices of fasting, of brahmacharya and his desire to be a satyagrahi and sthitapragyna at the centre of his key texts. This act of reading Gandhi is akin to telling the beads, comforting and meditative in its repetitiveness
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