This Subject Includes

  • Course No: HS 615
  • Course: MA in Liberal Arts
  • Semester: II
  • Title: Gandhi: The Man and His Ideas
  • Stream: History
  • Gandhi’s life: experimental and dialogic approach; Gandhi and ‘Modern’ civilisation; ‘tradition’ and reform; his concepts of Truth/God, Ahimsa and Satyagraha; Gandhi’s religion; politics, centrality of individual autonomy and moral duty, incorporative nationalism and universalism – the ‘Oceanic Circle; Gandhi, reason, science and ethics; Gandhi, machinery, technology; Heavy industry and economic development; ’Constructive Programme’; State, sovereign power, and the citizen; Gandhi’s Feminism; Debates with Tagore; Relevance for our time.