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'Understanding Hinduism covers the history of Hinduism and explores how the religion has evolved and expanded. Readers learn about spiritual leaders, how Hindus perceive the world, and how Hindus live in the modern world. This title also discusses the complex interactions between Hinduism and Indian politics...'

'The invocation of "the people" as the foundation of the nation state raises the specter of "belonging" and involves a staging of the essence of the nation...'

'Discusses the changes of the state and society of post-independence India...'

"The present national crisis of violently conflicting communal identities represents a choice between the inclusiveness of Gandhi and the exclusions of Savarkar. Gandhi did not separate religion from politics. He brought a religious ethic to politics rather than political militancy into religious communities ... "

'This article attempts to apply his idea of a "crisis conversion" to national and political crises in the history of India...'

'This article proceeds from a critical reading of the role of religion for nation-building in India. In particular, the authors discuss how the Indian notion of secularism relies upon a number of religious legacies manifest in a Gandhian notion of what constitutes religious and political communities...'

This essay explores, in part, Gandhi's actual lived Hinduism.

'Hindu nationalism is the child of India's modern history and democratic politics, not of its intrinsic nature...'

'This book looks at a controversial event from modern history, showing why one of the world's most famous leaders chose a particular course of action...'

"Gandhi and India's Engagement with Political Modernity ... "

""There is an indefinable mysterious power that pervades everything. I feel it, tho I do not see it." This is the definition of God as given by that great Indian leader of saintly qualities ... "

" Between I920 and his death in I948 Gandhi was the dominant personality in Indian affairs and the most admired of the great world figures of the time. Twenty years later it is customary, and justified, to lament that in India, at least, little is now apparent of the enormous impression he created ... "

'Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was an Indian lawyer, politician, social activist, and writer who
became the leader of the nationalist movement against the British rule of India...'

'The political, educational, and ideological development in Mahatma Gandhi
took place at a critical time in Indian history...'

'The article discusses brief profile of Indian freedom fighter leader Mahatma Gandhi and his legacy...'

'This is the story of Gandhi's spiritual evolution – the turning points and choices that made him not just a great political leader but also a timeless icon of nonviolence...'

'Dennis Dalton's classic account of Gandhi's political and intellectual development focuses on the leader's two signal triumphs: the civil disobedience movement (or salt satyagraha) of 1930 and the Calcutta fast of 1947. Dalton clearly demonstrates how Gandhi's lifelong career in national politics gave him the opportunity to develop and refine his ideals...'

'Gandhi's Salt March united all Indians in peaceful protest for independence. Yet British forces met them with violence and imprisonment. In this story of India's struggle for freedom, we'll learn how Gandhi's philosophy of nonviolent action overpowered the British government...'

'Tomorrow, more than one billion people will celebrate the 75th anniversary of one of the most dramatic events in India's fight for independence from Britain, Mahatma Gandhi's Salt March...'

'This is a story of Gandhi's great achievements, the enemies who brought him down, and the legacy that continues to inspire the fight for freedom and justice around the world...'

'Throughout the course of Mahatma Gandhi's life, one thing always reigned true: violence was never the answer..'

'A case study of post ‐ Independence India considering the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi and the Partition of India and Pakistan demonstrates how two very different events were promoted as cultural traumas by various carrier groups in order to promote a secular vision of the Indian nation...'