Socialism Democracy and Nationalism in India

By:

"Ghose, Sankar"

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Bombay; Allied; 1973Description: 503pSubject(s):

Democracy

DDC classification:

320.533 GHO

Summary: Nationalistic, democratic, and socialistic ideas and movements have inspired and influenced many in modern India. In order to understand India today it is necessary to study these powerful ideas and movements in all their many-sided complexity. The book begins with a study of the freedom struggle in the country. It considers the emergence of Gandhi in Indian politics and compares his political philosophy and methods with those of Gokhale, the constitutionalist, and Tilak, the "extremist." It examines the sources of Gandhi's ideas and his critique of modern industrialism and Western civilization as also his doctrine of nonviolence and its limits. It discusses the Gandhian technique of satyagraha, his non-cooperation and civil disobedience movements, and, finally, the Quit India movement of 1942 as also the Azad Hind movement of Subhas Bose.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
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Nationalistic, democratic, and socialistic ideas and movements have inspired and influenced many in modern India. In order to
understand India today it is necessary to study these powerful ideas and movements in all their many-sided complexity. The book begins with a study of the freedom struggle in the country. It considers the emergence of Gandhi in Indian politics and compares his political philosophy and methods with those of Gokhale, the constitutionalist, and Tilak, the "extremist." It examines the sources of Gandhi's ideas and his critique of modern industrialism and Western civilization as also his doctrine of nonviolence and its limits. It discusses the Gandhian technique of satyagraha, his non-cooperation and civil disobedience movements, and, finally, the Quit India movement of 1942 as also the Azad Hind movement of Subhas Bose.

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