Politics, Ethics and the Self

Rajeev Bhargava is former Director, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, New Delhi, India.

Introduction

Rajeev Bhargava

Part 1: The truncated ethic of modern civilization1. The Originality of Hind Swaraj

Anthony J. Parel

2. Gandhi and the Debate about Civilization

Lloyd I. Rudolph and Susanne Hoeber Rudolph

3. English Rule Without the Englishman: Citizenship, Subalternity, and Gandhi's ‘Reader’

Ajay Skaria

4. Reflections on Gandhi’s Anti-Modernism

Akeel Bilgrami

5. Hind Swaraj: A Historical Necessity

Nandkishore Acharya

6. On the Normative Structure of Gandhian Thought: With Special Reference to Hind Swaraj

Satish K. Jain

Part 2: Empire, politics, and violence

7. Empire and Violence, or the Foes in Hind Swaraj

Rajmohan Gandhi

8. Political Self-Rule: Gandhi and the Future of Democracy

Fred Reinhard Dallmayr

9. Politics and Violence: Gandhi’s Ambivalence to Democracy

Uday Singh Mehta

10. A Nationalism Open Towards the World

Jeremy Webber

Part 3: Colonization of minds

11. Learning from the South: Gandhi and Intercultural Translation

Boaventura de Sousa Santos

12. Beyond Decolonizing Knowledge: Revisiting the Svaraj in Ideas Debate

Shail Mayaram

13. Gandhi And Political Praxis of Educational Reconstruction, 1909–1938

Joseph Bara

Part 4: Cultivating self14. Could Hind Swaraj Presuppose a Theory of Judgment?

Sasheej Hegde

15. Gandhi: Calling to Non-Violence Joined by a Strong Pragmatism

Gangeya Mukherji

16. Afterlife of a Text: Hind Swaraj and the Chhattisgarh Mukti Morcha

Hilal Ahmed

17. Sheherezade and Hind Swaraj

Lucy Nusseibeh and Sari Nusseibeh

18. Gandhi’s Twin Fasts and the Possibility of Non-Violence

Sudhir Chandra

Part 5: How to read Hind Swaraj

19. Reading Hind Swarajya/Swaraj in Two Languages

Tridip Suhrud