GANDHI
His Relevance For Our Times


GANDHI - His Relevance For Our Times

GANDHI -
His Relevance For Our Times


Table of Contents

  1. The Tradition of Nonviolence and its Underlying Forces
  2. A Study of the Meanings of Nonviolence
  3. Notes on the Theory of Nonviolence
  4. Nonviolence as a Positive Concept
  5. Experimentation in Nonviolence: The Next Phase
  6. Satyagraha versus Duragraha: The Limits of Symbolic Violence
  7. The Best Solver of Conflicts
  8. The Spiritual Basis of Satyagraha
  9. Satyagraha as a Mirror
  10. Why Did Gandhi Fail?
  11. Gandhi's Political Significance Today
  12. Violence and Power Politics
  13. India Yet Must Show The Way
  14. War and What Price Freedom
  15. A Coordinated Approach to Disarmament
  16. A Disarmament Adequate to Our Times
  17. The Impact of Gandhi on the U.S. Peace Movement
  18. Nonviolence and Mississippi
  19. Aspects of Nonviolence in American Culture
  20. The Gandhian Approach to World Peace
  21. The Grass-roots of World Peace
  22. Is There a Nonviolent Road to a Peaceful World?
  23. Nuclear Explosions and World Peace
  24. The Gandhian Way and Nuclear War
  25. A Gandhian Model for World Politics
  26. A Nonviolent International Authority
  27. Basic Principles of Gandhism
  28. The Ideal and the Actual in Gandhi's Philosophy
  29. Means and Ends in Politics
  30. A Contemporary Interpretation of Ahimsa
  31. The True Spirit of Satyagraha
  32. Gandhi through the Eyes of the Gita
  33. Gandhi's Illustrious Antecedents
  34. Taking Sarvodaya to the People
  35. Epilogue: The Essence of Gandhi
  36. Sources

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Edited by : G. Ramachandran & T. K. Mahadevan
ISBN : 81-7229-348-8
Printed by : Kapur Printing Press,
Delhi,
India
Published by : Gandhi Peace Foundation
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New Delhi 110 002,
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Abernathy, Ralph 233
Abstinence from Animal Food 362
Alcott, Bronson 13
Ahimsa 3, 9, 15, 17, 129, 133, 143, 168-9, 270, 279-80, 282-4, 314,321,327,329,331,333-40 (see also nonviolence)
American civil war 226-9, 280
American Friends Service Committee 201
American Peace Society 226
Andrews, C.F. 195-6, 367
Angell, Norman 160
Anti-Nuclear-Arms Convention 165, 167
Aquinas, St Thomas 294
Arjuna 122
Arms race 184-5
The Arms Race 263
Asoka 6, 7, 15
Assisi, Francesco d' 75
Atom bomb 161, 242, 272, 274-5,279
Augustine of Hippo 365
Aurelius, Marcus 10, 351
Azad, Abul Kalam 155
Ballou, Adin
Bardoli 45, 116
Basic education 83, 258, 369, 373
Beer, Samuel 102
Bentham, Jeremy 325-6, 330
Besant, Annie 381
Bhagavad-Gita 3, 122, 143, 242, 270,308,324,334,348-9,351 354-7, 359, 380
Bhudan 53, 369-70
Bigelow, Albert 202
Bismarck 230
Bolsheviki 39
Bondurant, Joan 91, 114, 144, 157, 205, 285, 311
Bonhoffer 76
Bose, Rabindra Nath 284
Bose, Subhas Chandra 142
Boston Peace Convention 35
Bowles, Chester 203
Brinton, Crane 90
Brinton, Howard 11-2
Buddha 4-6, 16, 114, 119, 280, 355,375,380
Buddhism 6, 8, 354
A Bunch of Old Letters 283
Burritt, Elihu 227
Camus, Albert 220-1
Canby, Henry Seidel 13
Case, Clarence Marsh 25, 41, 227
Chaco Wars 182
China 131, 140-1
Choisy, Maryse 92
Christianity 10, 33, 75-6, 361-2
Christian love 197
Christian non-resistance 70
Christian pacifism 25
Christians 11, 31-2, 68, 75-6, 204, 223, 255, 257, 351, 361, 363
Christians, early 10, 29, 361
Christian truth 11, 367
Christ, Jesus 9-10, 16, 18, 31-3, 67-8, 73, 280, 339, 356-7, 360-1, 363-7, 375
Christmas Island tests 287
Churchill, Winston 160
Church of Christ Scientist 364
Civil disobedience 13-4, 90, 100, 147, 149-50, 200, 211, 227, 288, 317, 379, 381
Civil rights movement 88, 108-9, 151, 197, 203-4, 209, 211-6, 218-9
Clayton, Cranston 197
Cold war 184, 249-50, 279-80
Committee against Jim Crow in the Armed Forces 200
Committee for Nonviolent Action 219
Committee of Federal Organizations 209, 216
Committee of One Hundred 92-3
Committee of Racial Equality 46, 199
Common Market, European 301
Commonwealth, British 382
Community development program 370
Congress of Industrial Organizations 229
The Conquest of Violence 91, 114
Conscientious objectors 228
Constructive work 84
Contra Celsum 364
Co-operative movement 370
Co-ownership 259-60
Darkness at Noon 328
Datta, Dhirendra Mohan 282
Debs, Eugene 39
Decentralization 258-60, 296
Delhi-to-Peking friendship march 205
Dell, Floyd 89-90, 94
Demilitarization 182
Demintry 259
Democratic Values and the Practice of Citizenship 166
Dewey, John 102
Dharna 105
Direct Action Committee Against Nuclear War 46
Disarmament 180-2, 185-90, 224, 263-64, 289, 345
Disarmament, nuclear 183
Disarmament, unilateral 165-7, 169, 178, 183-4, 189-91
Diwakar, R.R. 88, 91, 289
Dodge, David Low 226
Donne, John 175
Duragraha 99-102, 107-11
Duragrahi 101, 108
Einstein, Albert 170, 273
Eisenhower, Dwight 173, 214-5
Eliot, T.S. 335
Emerson, Ralph Waldo 13
Ends and means 321-31
Ends and Means xv
Engels, Friedrich 326
Enneads 361
Essenes 360,363
Evers, Medgar W. 209
Fairweather 361
Faison, Negley 196
Fellowship of Reconciliation 36, 199, 203, 227
Ferdinand, Archduke Franz 174
Fischer, Louis 205
Fox, George 11, 32, 302
Freud, Sigmund 176, 335
The Friend 24
Fromm, Eric 173
Fullbright, John W. 215
Gaitskell, Hugh 183
Gandhi x-xvi, 44, 76, 83, 119, 130, 137, 291, 298, 310-1, 318, 326, 347, 349-51, 376, 382; and civil disobedience 146-7, 381; and the Congress 140-2, 144, 356; and the Gita 353, 355, 359; and Hitler 285; and industrialization 258; and Marxists 145-6; and Negroes 203; and nonviolence 132-3, 148, 171, 271, 280, 282-3, 313-5, 337, 358, 380; and nuclear weapons 266; and pacifists 23-5, 251; and politics 262, 308; and satyagraha 285, 289-90, 307, 341-2, 346, 348, 377, 383; and spirituality 123; and the West 195-6, 202, 204-5, 257, 378; and unilateral disarmament 189, 191, 244-5, and the U.S. peace movement 206-7; and World War 11 243; consistency in 312; his relevance ix; Jain influence on 8; misrepresentations of 139; on the atom bomb 242, 279; on the constructive program 47, 177, 369; on himself 138; on Jesus 68, 357; on karma 241; on means and ends 309, 321-4, 327-31; on morality 16, 134; on the Negro struggle 197; on nonviolence 18, 22, 47, 85, 143-4, 252, 267, 270; on peace 250; on satyagraha 45-8, 99, 105, 109, 111, 122, 129; on self-renunciation 17; on the Sermon on the Mount 9; on the State 316; on Thoreau 14; on Tolstoy I1-12; on trusteeship 317; on truth 15-6, 120-1, 246, 264, 281, 292-3, 303, 354, 379; on violence 108; on war 172, 174, 178-9, 249, 261
Gandhian constructive program 18, 47, 177, 205-7, 329, 369, 372
Gandhi and Stalin 205
Gandhi centenary 383
Gandhigram 369
Gandhi, Kaba 14
Gandhi on World Affairs 205
Garrison, William Lloyd 35-6, 227
Georgia 217
Ghaffar Khan, Abdul 149
Goa 131, 139, 142, 287
Gramdan 53, 368, 370-2, 374
The Great Illusion 160
The Greek Passion 175
Gregg, Richard B. 92,129, 143, 195, 205, 227
Grimke, Thomas S. 226
Grotius 292-3, 299
Gunther, John 196
Gyan Chand 52
Hague Conference 188
Hammarskjold, Dag 295
Harijan 68, 349, 354, 360
Harijans 83, 91, 372
Harijan Sevak Sangh 369
Hind Swaraj 321
Hinduism 4, 16, 29, 333
Hitler, Adolf 147-8, 154, 160, 188, 197, 240, 243, 255, 276, 285
Holmes, John Haynes 195-6
Hopi Indian nation 37
Houser, George 199
Howard University 205
Hume, David 325
Hunter Commission 148
Hunter, Robert 229
Huxley, Aldous xv, 122, 335
Independent Labour Party 39
Indian National Army 142
Indian National Congress 140-1, 144-5, 155, 307, 315, 356
Indian national movement 315
Indian war of independence (Indian mutiny) 141
Industrial revolution 254, 260
Inside Asia 196
International law 292
Irwin (Lord) 142, 147
Israel 374
Ittoen 352-3, 355
Jalianwala Bagh 148
James, William 177
Jaspers, Karl 290
Jefferson, Thomas 225
Jehovah's Witnesses 38-9
Joad, C.E.M. xi
Johnson, Lyndon 175, 215-6
Johnson, Mordecai 203
Johnson, Paul B. 216
John the Baptist 364
John, the Gospel according to St 363
Jones, E. Stanley 196, 282
Jones, Rufus 196
Journal of Conflict Resolution 205
Justinian 362
Juvenal 360
Kachongva, Dan 37
Kahn, Herman 188
Kalinga War 15
Kalki 270
Karma 322-3, 327
Kashmir 131, 139, 141, 165
Kasturba Gandhi Memorial Trust 369
Kautilya 324, 326
Kazansakis, Nikos 175
Kennedy, J.F. 181, 215
Khadi 83, 308, 368
Kher, V.B. 284
Khruschov, Nikita 181
Killing No Murder 324
The Kingdom of God Is Within You xii, 11
King-Hall, Stephen 170
King, Martin Luther ix, xv, 81, 94, 132, 210, 216, 232-3, 287, 351
Kipling, Rudyard 358
Korean War 201
Krishna 354, 357
Kumarappa, Bharatan 24
Kumarappa, J.C. 145
Kuper, Leo 25
Labour movement 198
Lathrop, John 226
Law of the harvest 82, 84
Lawrence textile strike 198
Lead Kindly Light 205
League of Nations 188, 246, 275, 346
Lenin, V.I. 326-7
Leprosy 369
Lester, Muriel 196
Liebnecht, Karl 39
Lincoln, Abraham 175
Lippman, Walter 175
Little Rock 214
Lloyd, Selwyn 181
Lohia, Rammanohar 52
London, Jack 230
Lowell, James Russell 227
Luke, the Gospel according to St 366
Luthuli, John 290
Luxemburg, Rosa 39
Lynd, Staughton 205
MacArthur, Douglas 172
Macdonald, Dwight 206
Machiavelli, Niccolo 324-6, 329
Macmillan, Harold 286
Mahabharata 3-4, 334
Mahatma Gandhi: His Own Story 367
Mahatma Gandhi: the Last Phase 349
Manu 3, 276
Maritain, Jacques 323
Materialism 253, 255, 257
Materia Medica 364
Matthew, the Gospel according to St 364-6
Mau Mau 148
Mays, Benjamin 151, 197
McCarthyism 114, 200
Mein Kampf 148
Menninger, Roy W. 173
Mennonites 223
Metamorphoses 360
Meyer, William H. 12
Miller, Webb 196
Millis, Walter 182
Mississippi 90, 209, 212-8
Mohammad, Prophet 380
Montgomery bus boycott 44, 71, 202-3, 232
Mooney, Tom 230
Moore, G.E. 340
Moral resistance 34-5, 49
Morris, Jones 311
Mother India 278
Mukherjee, Hiren 311, 317
Muste, A.J. 51, 197-9, 202-3
N.A.A.C.P. 209-11, 215
Narayan, Jayaprakash 156
National Labour Relations Act 229
Natural law 292-3, 295
Nazis 77, 148, 160-2
Necodemus 363
Negroes 46, 108, 122, 127, 197, 200, 202-3, 209-13, 215, 217-8, 232-4, 288
Nehru, Jawaharlal ix, 4, 17, 140, 142, 157, 173, 196, 283, 287, 340, 369-70
Nelson, William Stuart 204
Nevada Action 202
New England Abolitionist Convention 36
New Testament 9, 15, 31, 34, 223-4,378
The New York Times 219
Niebuhr, Reinhold 197, 228
Noel-Baker, Philip 263
No More War 24
Non-alignment 142, 345
Non-cooperation 99-100, 150, 164, 345, 347
Non-cooperation movement 382
Non-possession 317
Non-resistance 29, 35, 69-70, 73, 89-90, 223
Nonviolence xiii, 3-5, 8-11, 14-8, 22-6, 49, 67, 72, 74, 76-78, 80-1, 84-5, 87-9, 99, 110, 113, 132, 139, 143-4, 151, 155, 166-9, 171, 197-8, 201-3, 209-10, 217, 221-2, 228-9, 231, 233-4, 245-6, 251-2, 267, 276-9, 294, 309, 313-4, 317-8, 322, 338, 342, 344, 360, 380, 383.
Nonviolence, generic 26, 28
Nonviolence in an Aggressive World 198
Nonviolence, types of 64
Nonviolent action 76, 139, 145, 148-51, 153, 157, 167, 199, 200, 287
Nonviolent Action against Nuclear Weapons 202
Nonviolent direct action 31, 45, 47, 195, 231-2, 286
Nonviolent resistance 22, 81, 113, 116-9, 196, 207, 223, 233
Nonviolent resistance and direct action 26-8, 34, 49, 55, 81
Nonviolent revolution 28, 48-52, 205, 382
Nuclear bomb 244, 260, 262
Nuclear deterrence 286, 289
Nuclear pacifism 287
Nuclear war xvi, 244, 254, 266, 271-3
Organization of American States 183
Origen 363, 366
Origen and Greek Patristic Theology 361
Ovid 360, 364
Pacifism 22, 25, 34, 54, 67, 195
Pacifist 80-3, 204, 213, 251, 360
Page, Kirby 196
Panchayati raj 308, 374
Passive resistance 42, 69, 71-2, 314
Patanjali 120
Paul, Alice 231
Paullin, Theodore 25
Paul of Tarsus 75
Paul, St 363
Pax Romana 295
Peace 39, 204, 244-5, 247-50, 253-4, 292, 294-5, 301, 346-7
Peaceful resistance 43-4, 47
Peacemakers 200-1
Peace movement 185, 196, 198, 200-1, 204, 206, 228, 234
Peace movement, radicalism in 198, 201
Peace worker 250, 293, 295
Penn, William 224-5, 302
Phillips, J.B. 68
The Philosophy of Compassion 363
Plato 294
Pliny 360
Plotinus 361
Polaris Action 202
Poqo 92
Porphyry 362
The Power of Nonviolence 91, 195, 205
Power, Paul 205
Prasad, Rajendra 165, 167, 178
Prohibition 307
The Public Philosophy 175
Pugwash Conference 190
Pyarelal 287, 349
Pythagoras 358-60, 364, 367
Quakers 10-11, 15, 32-3, 196, 223-5, 231, 251, 295
Quit India movement 382
Racial justice 197, 199, 200, 204
Radhakrishnan, S. 154, 249, 362
Rajagopalachari, C. 167, 169, 272
Ramayana 3
Randolf, A. Phillip 199, 200
Reconciliation 24
Religion 11-2, 16-7, 175, 191, 268
Richer by Asia 205
Rogers, Carl R. 124-5
Rolland, Romain 121, 195
Roosevelt, F.D. 117, 199, 229
Roosevelt, Theodore, 222
Round Table Conference 196, 317
Ruskin, John 331
Russell, Bertrand 176, 272-3, 287, 335
Rustin, Bayard 199-200, 287
Sacco and Vanzetti 40-1
Salt march 83, 196, 382
SANE (National Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy) 202
Sartre, Jean Paul 175, 339
Sarvodaya 373, 375
Saturday Evening Post 203
Satya 321, 331 (see also truth)
Satyagraha xi, xv-vi, 44-6, 89, 91, 99-100, 102-4, 107, 109-11, 122, 125-6, 129, 133, 150, 153, 168, 191, 195, 197, 206, 271, 285, 288-90, 307, 314, 317, 341-2, 344-9, 377, 381-3
Satyagrahi 46-7, 87, 101, 106-8, 121, 127, 243, 314, 343, 376
Scott, Lawrence 202
Scott, Michael 50, 93-4
Sermon on the Mount 9, 31, 73, 115, 158, 223
Sexby, Colonel 324
Shanti Sena 155-6, 252, 374
Sharp, Gene 70
Sheean, Vincent 205
Shridharani, Krishnalal 153, 195
Sibley, Mulford 25
Sit-ins 232-3
Sizwe, Umkonte We 92
Smith, Adam 286
Smuts-Gandhi Agreement 381
Snow, C.P. 93
Socialism and war 326
Socialist Labour Party 39
Socialist Party 38-9
Society of Friends 10, 31, 223
Socrates 94, 271
South Africa xi, 15, 138, 377, 379
Speak Truth to Power 201
Stalin, J. 137, 147, 328
Stevenson, Adlai 172
Stimson, Henry L. 117
Stoics 350
The Story of My Experiments with Truth 119, 144, 349, 359, 361, 363, 377
Stroup, H.H. 40
Student Nonviolent Co-ordinating Committee 203
Student Peace Union 202
Sutherland, Bill 202
Swaraj 315-6
Tagore, Rabindranath 159, 376, 381
Taylor, Edmund 205
Templin, Ralph 199
Tenko San 352-4
Tertz, Abram 327
Their Morals and Ours 327
Thomas, Norman 41
Thompson, Allen 219
Thoreau, Henry David 13-4, 227,287
Thurman, Howard 151, 197
Tillich, Paul 282
Tinker (Professor) 312
Tobias, Charming 151
Tolstoy, Leo 11-2, 15, 32, 150, 381
Toynbee, Arnold 382
The Trial Begins 327
Trier, Herson 326
Triple revolution 212, 220
Trotsky, Leon 326-7
Truman, Harry 117
Trusteeship xiv, 317
Truth xii, xiv, 11, 15-7, 37, 75, 78, 117, 120-2, 133, 171, 246, 253, 281-2, 285, 292-3, 299, 302, 308-10, 313, 326, 330-1, 356, 365-7, 375
Tucker, Benjamin 230
Twentieth Century 93
Unesco 293
Unilateral initiatives 184-5
United Nations xv, 13, 163, 181, 183, 190, 275, 285, 296, 301-2, 346
Unity 195
Unto This Last 391
Upanisads 3
Urban League 211
Versailles, treaty of 255
Vimalakirti Sutra 356
Vinoba 53, 155, 164, 166-70, 249, 272, 368, 375
Voltaire 176
Vykom satyagraha 46
Wade-ins 232
War xv, 10, 35, 37-42, 50-1, 82-3, 86, 153, 158, 160, 164, 172-5, 177, 179-82, 184-6, 188, 216, 220, 225-8, 248, 253-4, 256-7, 263, 271-4, 297, 298, 302-3, 342-3, 345-6
War Resisters League 219
War Without Violence 153, 195
Washington Post 13
Wells, H.G. 7
White Citizens' Council 219
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom 227
Wordsworth, William 130
World Development Year 302
World Pacifist Conference 24, 201, 203
World Peace Brigade 205
World Refugee Year 302
The World Tomorrow 197
World War I 38-9, 186, 188, 228, 241
World War 11 22, 39-40, 181, 186, 206, 228-30, 240-1, 242, 255, 274, 287
Yadavas 273
Yevtushenko, Yevgeny 328
Yoga Sutra 120
Young India 309
Yudhisthira 335, 338