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Gandhi's Dilemma

Nonviolent Principles and Nationalist Power

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  1. Manfred B. Steger
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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Introduction

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    Pages 1-14

  3. The Promise of British Liberalism

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    Pages 15-39

  4. Confronting Difference and Exclusion

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    Pages 41-66

  5. Gandhi’s Critique of Liberalism

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    Pages 67-87

  6. Imagining India

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    Pages 89-110

  7. Purifying Self and Nation

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    Pages 111-139

  8. Reconciling Nonviolent Principles with Nationalist Power?

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    Pages 141-179

  9. Epilogue

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    Pages 181-194

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 195-232
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About this book

Throughout his long career as a political thinker and activist, Mahatma Gandhi encountered the dilemma of either remaining faithful to his nonviolent principles and risking the failure of the Indian nationalist movement, or focusing on the seizure of political power at the expense of his moral message. Putting forward his vision of a "nonviolent nationalism," Gandhi argued that Indian self-rule could be achieved without sacrificing the universalist imperatives of his nonviolent philosophy. Conceived as a study in the history of political thought, this book examines the origins, meaning, and unfolding of Gandhi s dilemma as it played itself out in both theory and political practice. This discussion is inextricably linked to significant and timely issues that are critical for the study of nationalism, for Gandhi s vision raises the important question of whether it is indeed possible to construct a benign type of nationalism that is rooted in neither physical nor conceptual forms of violence.

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Manfred B. Steger is Associate Professor of Political Science at Illinois State University.

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