The Global Gandhi: Essays in Comparative Political Philosophy

This book is a comparative study of Gandhis philosophy and analyses his relevance to modern political thought. It traces the intellectual origins of Gandhis nonviolence as well as his engagement with Western thinkers ancient as well as his contemporaries. The author discusses Gandhis exchanges with eminent thinkers like Tolstoy and Thoreau and looks at his vision of pluralism, democracy and violence through the lens of philosophers like Hannah Arendt, Isaiah Berlin and Cornelius Castoriadis. Further, it explores Gandhis association with Abdul Ghaffar Khan and the Khilafat Movement. Finally, the book examines Gandhian thought in the light of his global followers like Martin Luther King Jr and Nelson Mandela.