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This book explores the multi-dimensional aspects of satyagraha as a movement of being with and striving for and fighting for Truth and Truth realizations. It will be of interest to scholars and researchers of movement and resistance studies, Gandhi, Indian philosophy, cultural studies, literary studies, religious studies and sociology.
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Rethinking Satyagraha: An Introduction and an Invitation
Part I: Rethinking Satyagraha: Truth, Travel and Translation1. Rethinking Satyagraha: Truth, Travel and Translation
2. Rethinking Gandhi's Philosophy and Practice of Satyagraha: Insights, Misconceptions, and Reformulations
3. Reclaiming Satyagraha: Truth, Travel and Translation
4. In Search of Inter-religious Truth: The Acts of Travel and Translation in Comparative Theology
Part II: Rethinking Satyagraha: Religion, Spirituality and Beyond 5. Imam Hussain, Gandhi, Gaffar Khan and the Traditions of Satyagraha and Winning Martyrdom in Islam
6. Satyagraha and Gandhi's Religious Ethics
7. Satyagraha: The Complex Legacy of Gandhi and Buber
8. Gandhi-Religion-Spirituality: Satyagraha in the 21st Century
9. Satyagraha and the making and un-making of Gandhi's Swaraj
10. Satyagraha, Three Gunas and the Calling of Hope: Plato, Gandhi, Moltzman and Beyond
11 Gandhi and Mandela, The Two Pioneers of Satyagraha Movement: A Comparative Analysis
12. Spirituality, Seva and the Art of Seeking the Truth: Perspectives from the Guru-led Seva Movements in India
Part III: Rethinking Satyagraha: Ethics, Aesthetics, Politics and Beyond13. Gandhi on Non-Violence in Action, Education and Satyagraha
14. Satyagraha as Emancipation: Gandhi, Kallenbach and Naidoo
15. Wittgenstein and Gandhi: Religion, Politics, Mysticism and Social Critique
16. Satyagraha as Pure Means: Recovering Gandhi's Politics of the Body in Dialogue with Agamben's Contemporary Political Theory
17. Doing Without a Patrimonial Ruler and the Divine Right of Kings: Satyagraha, Democracy and Egalitarianism
18. Gandhi's Experiment with Walking / Padayatras: An unfolding of a Moral Space
Afterword by Marcus Bussey
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Ananta Kumar Giri is the Founding Honorary Executive Trustee of Vishwaneedam Center for Asian Blossoming, Puducherry and Chennai. After three decades of service, he retired as a Professor from the Madras Institute of Development Studies, Chennai, India, in March 2025. He has taught and done research in many universities in India and abroad, including Aalborg University (Denmark), Maison des sciences de l'homme (Paris, France), the University of Kentucky (USA), University of Freiburg & Humboldt University (Germany), Jagiellonian University (Poland), and Jawaharlal Nehru University (New Delhi). He has an abiding interest in social movements and cultural change, criticism, creativity and contemporary dialectics of transformation, theories of self, culture and society, and creative streams in education, philosophy, and literature. Dr Giri has written and edited more than six dozen books in Odia and English.
