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Bezig met laden... Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle with India (2011)door Joseph Lelyveld
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 Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek.   ) dasam | Jun 21, 2018 |   ) Sullywriter | Apr 3, 2013 | Gandhi is one of those few figures whose name inspires near-universal reverence. In India, within a barely a century after his death, he is already somewhere between Jesus Christ and the Buddha. Perhaps there are a few diehard colonialists and preservers of Empire who still despise him, and aside from them, those few fervent religious devotees. Yet he is still controversial. His role in Indian and world history, and the effects of his actions, are still yet to be determined. Great Soul tears open more than a few historical wounds and will no doubt cause history departments and devoted followers and nationalists to erupt with rage for years. It remains uncertain on the extent of his role in the renewal and independence of modern India Âû if he is solely responsible for its greatness, or if his meddling inadvertently worsened the centuries of sectarian strife. In popular views, he is a saint ûÂû a simple holy man, seen in his biopics and operas. But in the beginning, in South Africa, we see the old story of GandhiûÂûs awakening in a train as he is forced to sit in the back. He is still then a shrewd and ambitious lawyer, tempted to settle down and work for some social justice causes. His views then were amorphous, but some guidelines have already been established ûÂû e.g. Should he include eggs or milk in his vegetarian diet? How are we to properly balance the roles of caste and religion? E.g. some traditional Hindus are in favor of maintenance of the system, etc. He first things of representation within empire, and serves as a medicine stretcher in the Boer War ûÂû by historical irony, one of the few circumstances where him and Churchill are on the same side. But later his views become more certain ûÂû Quit India! Village independence, local means of production. The dietary and sexual restrictions are part of a larger goal ûÂû improved discipline and sanitation. India does deal with the latter to this day. A popular bugaboo of modern historical biography is discovering traces of homosexuality. German-Jewish bodybuilder named Kallenbach, who at least seems like an old friend more than anything ûÂû and male friendships were closer and more platonic in the 19th century until just recently. Up until, and even after his arrival in India, he still has his shrewd political dealings, in contrast to his saintly image. We see discussions with Jinnah, the Pakistani ûÂûfather of the nationûÂû. Nehru, a ûÂûchosen successorûÂû. An ûÂûuntouchableûÂû ûÂû this one is an astonishing figure in his own right, B. R. Ambedkar, who insists upon his action for Caste Reform. Chandra Bose, who will defect to the Imperial Japanese Army and fights a war of rebellion, in contrast to his own plans of satyagraha ûÂû using the force of truth. Unfortunately, we see the limits of satyagraha, with the composition of his letter to Hitler, simply asking him politely to let the Jews go. And then public statements asking the Jews to go peacefully to their deaths, and hope the sheer remorse will overcome the Nazis. This illustrates the fundamental differences between the British and German empires ÂEÂÂE the British Empire only committed genocide when it benefitted their policies ÂEÂÂE the Nazi empire, genocide was open policy and law. As for what Hitler thought of Ghandi, he is said to have remarked offhand to a British liaison, ÂEÂÂEWhy donÂEÂÂEt you just shoot him?ÂEÂÂE His doctrines of non-violence and satyagraha and abst ( ) HadriantheBlind | Mar 30, 2013 | Show Less albanypubliclibrary | Mar 1, 2011 |
 In a sense, "Gandhi" is a gloss on its subject's life rather than a conventional biography, but there is nothing abbreviated about the book. Lelyveld shows us Gandhi in tight close-up, and he places the man in various frames of reference — social, political and religious — that allow us to understand and appreciate him not as a plaster saint but as a flesh-and-blood human who wrote himself into history, and not only because of his shimmering vision of a more perfect world but also because of his sheer force of will. Of course, any coalition movement involves a certain degree of compromise and occasional hypocrisy. But Gandhi's saintly image, his martyrdom at the hands of a Hindu fanatic in 1948 and Martin Luther King Jr.'s adoption of him as a role model for the American civil-rights movement have largely protected him from critical scrutiny. The French man of letters Romain Rolland called Gandhi "a mortal demi-god" in a 1924 hagiography, catching the tone of most writing about him. People used to take away the sand that had touched his feet as relics—one relation kept Gandhi's fingernail clippings—and modern biographers seem to treat him with much the same reverence today. Mr. Lelyveld is not immune, making labored excuses for him at every turn of this nonetheless well-researched and well-written book. OnderscheidingenErelijsten
In this ambitious, original study, Pulitzer Prize-winner Lelyveld sets out to measure Gandhi's accomplishments as a politician and an advocate for the downtrodden--against Gandhi's own expectations and in light of his complex, conflicted feelings about his place in Indian history. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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 Google Books — Bezig met laden...GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)954.03History and Geography Asia India and South Asia 1785–1947 British ruleLC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde: (3.92)
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