DescriptionThis thoughtfully curated anthology examines how Mahatma Gandhi's principles areeternal and reflect his particular relevance today-a time of uncertainty, disruptionand rupture resulting from the social, political, economic and environmentalstructures humanity has built. As in the 20th century, so in the 21st, Gandhi as asymbol of peace, and his legacy of a fundamental and all-inclusive compassion-whatever its limitations and occasional contradictions-has important lessons for usif what we desire is a just and sustainable world.The pieces in this volume, arranged in two sections-'Influences' and 'Activisms'-discuss Gandhi's Influence on civil rights movements and social upliftment; Gandhias an exemplar of transformational leadership; Gandhi and the effects of the colonialencounter; Gandhi and higher education; Gandhi's ideas of village republics in thecontext of globalization; Gandhi and lessons for self-reliance and simplicity in acomplex and frenetic age; and Gandhi and the ethics of nursing and medical care,especially in a pandemic-ravaged world.Framed by Akeel Bilgrami's Foreword, which looks at the concepts of secularism andmulticulturalism from a Gandhian perspective, and Neera Chandhoke's Afterword,which discusses Gandhian activism in the present Indian context, this is an important,and in many ways empowering, contribution to contemporary scholarly and publicdiscourse.
