Table of Contents

1. Introduction: The Gandhian Dialogue 2. The Nationalism of the Colonised 3. Dialogic Resistance 4. An Alternative Modernity 5. Father of the Nation 6. Dalit and Adivasi Assertion 7. Religious Divides 8. Gandhian Activism in India after Independence 9. Gandhi's Global Legacy 10. The Moral Activists' Lonely Path to Martyrdom

About the Author

David Hardiman is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Warwick, a member of the Subaltern Studies collective and the author of many books on modern India, including Peasant Nationalists of Gujarat 1917-1934, The Coming of the Devi: Adivasi Assertion in Western India and Feeding the Baniya: Peasants and Usurers in Western India.

Reviews

"Recent books on Mahatma Gandhi fit tidily into one or other of the 'Life' or 'Thought' categories. On the one hand, there are biographies which provide a chronological account of the life; on the other, works of political thought which study Gandhi's ideas on religion, non-violence, the state, or economics. Here, in David Hardiman's new book, we finally have a work that systematically and skillfully links the life to the thought. This is a landmark study by a fine and experienced scholar... He is an acknowledged and widely admired pioneer in the study of popular protest and has had a life-long interest in Gandhi himself. This background and understanding are on magnificent display in the present book. Hardiman elegantly roots Gandhi's ideas...through the revealing anecdote, the under-reported exchange, the attention to the details of a life lived always in the public gaze... A distinctive feature of the book is the discussion of Gandhism after Gandhi -- of movements in Europe inspired by his example and ideas. Hardiman's book is empathetic but by no means uncritical. it draws on thirty years of thinking and reflecting upon Gandhi. It is widely researched, and extremely well written. It is wise, insightful, and, above all, historically subtle.[...] As a long-time student of the subject, let me say that this book goes on my very short list of indispensable books about Gandhi. Indeed, I would go far as to say that Hardiman's work is one of the five best books ever written about the Mahatma." (Ramachandra Guha, Professor of Indian History,Yale University)