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Kathryn Tidrick - Gandhi, Inbunden

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Gandhi

A Political and Spiritual Life

Av Kathryn Tidrick

Del i serien I.B. Tauris

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'My struggle is not merely political. It is religious and therefore quite pure.' This major new interpretation of the life of Gandhi adds a new dimension to our understanding of this extraordinary figure of twentieth-century history. Drawing on material neglected by earlier biographers, Kathryn Tidrick provides a highly original account of Gandhi's beliefs, their origins, and their expression in his political views and personal behaviour. She revealingly examines Gandhi's ideas about the relationship between sexual temptation and spiritual power, and the bizarre and scandalous behaviour that resulted. The fresh light that Tidrick throws on her subject reveals not the secular saint of popular myth but a difficult and self-obsessed man driven to pursue the world-changing destiny that he believed was marked out for him. Gandhi's conception of his personal destiny grew out of the religious influences to which he was exposed as a student in London and developed in the context of the Indian independence struggle.Throughout a long and turbulent career, he strove to balance the demands of the spiritual discipline he imposed on himself with the necessity (as he saw it) of his personal leadership of the independence movement and the claims of practical politics. Penetrating and provocative, "Gandhi: A Political and Spiritual Life" shows how he maintained an unswerving belief that his success or failure was of crucial significance not only for India but or the world. It makes a tremendous contribution to our understanding of the man behind the myth.
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2007-08-01
  • Mått: 156 x 234 x 36 mm
  • Vikt: 768 g
  • Format: Inbunden
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Serie: I.B. Tauris
  • Antal sidor: 400
  • Förlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • ISBN: 9781845111663
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Kathryn Tidrick is the author of Heart-Beguiling Araby: The English Romance with Arabia and Empire and theEnglish Character (both published by I.B.Tauris). She was born and grew up in Britain and has a Ph.D. in psychology from London University. She has lived in the United States, Jamaica, Tanzania, Kenya, South Africa and India, and now makes Scotland her home.

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'This is a book primarily about Gandhi's ideas, where they came from and how he put them to work in his own life and in the Indian nationalist movement. Its novelty lies in the great attention which is paid to the late Victorian experiment with new ideas - for instance, vegetarianism, theosophy and non-violence - which, with Gandhi's own distinctive understanding of Hinduism as a faith of social action, went to give his life and his politics such a remarkable form.' Francis Robinson, Professor of the History of South Asia, Royal Holloway, University of London 'Shows considerable knowledge and understanding of the political and social context of Gandhi's evolving thought. The portrait of Gandhi is a broadly sympathetic one, but it is certainly not uncritical, bringing out some of the contradictions in his stance on non-violence and communal relations, criticising his treatment of his wife and exposing some of his bizarre attitudes to sex.' David Omissi 'A fine and engaging biography of Mahatma Gandhi. His ideas remain very relevant in understanding the problems that plague the contemporary world, for example what has gone wrong in the British interpretation of multiculturalism.' Amartya Sen, Nobel Prize-winner and Lamont University Professor at Harvard University '[Kathryn Tidrick] uses previously neglected materials to frame a previously ignored perspective on her subject...A most earnest, curious student of Gandhi's spiritual netherworld, Tidrick has sought to make sense of one of the oddest miscellanies of thoughts and feelings any biographer could confront.' Canberra TimesTHE TABLETGandhi emerges from Tidrick's detailed and balanced biography as a man with his full share of flaws, contradictions and oddities, but with more than a streak of genuine holiness.FT MAGAZINE'...original and convincing...'-William Dalrymple SUNDAY TIMES, 'Brilliant' - William Dalrymple

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