Gandhian Nonviolent Struggle and Untouchability in South India
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Gandhian Nonviolent Struggle and Untouchability in South India
The 1924-25 Vykom Satyagraha and Mechanisms of Change
King, Mary Elizabeth (Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies for the UN-affiliated University for Peace, main campus, Costa Rica, and Distinguished Fellow of the Rothermere American Institute, University of Oxford, UK)
OUP India
11/2014
312
Dura
Inglês
9780199452668
15 a 20 dias
Through an analysis of the twenty-month-long Gandhian satyagraha (nonviolent resistance) against untouchability at Vykom, Kerala, in the mid-1920s, this book explores new approaches to the understanding and practice of civil resistance as the application of social power.
Contents ; List of figures and Maps ; Foreword by Bhikhu Parekh ; Preface ; Acknowledgments ; Introduction ; 1. Travancore Society: Early Stirrings of Organized Opposition against Caste ; 2. The Ezhava Community Awakens ; 3. The Satyagraha ; 4. The Maharani Regent and Travancore Governmental Change ; 5. The Settlement ; 6. The Vykom Compromise: Gandhi's Role and Broader Implications ; 7. Impact of Vykom on a Tool in International Theory ; 8. An Historic Campaign Holds Contemporary Lessons ; Conclusion ; Glossary ; Appendix I Timeline ; Appendix II Mechanisms of Change ; Select Bibliography ; Index ; About the Author
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Through an analysis of the twenty-month-long Gandhian satyagraha (nonviolent resistance) against untouchability at Vykom, Kerala, in the mid-1920s, this book explores new approaches to the understanding and practice of civil resistance as the application of social power.
Contents ; List of figures and Maps ; Foreword by Bhikhu Parekh ; Preface ; Acknowledgments ; Introduction ; 1. Travancore Society: Early Stirrings of Organized Opposition against Caste ; 2. The Ezhava Community Awakens ; 3. The Satyagraha ; 4. The Maharani Regent and Travancore Governmental Change ; 5. The Settlement ; 6. The Vykom Compromise: Gandhi's Role and Broader Implications ; 7. Impact of Vykom on a Tool in International Theory ; 8. An Historic Campaign Holds Contemporary Lessons ; Conclusion ; Glossary ; Appendix I Timeline ; Appendix II Mechanisms of Change ; Select Bibliography ; Index ; About the Author
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