Contents: Foreword. Introduction. 1. Dynamics of Gandhian thought/Aditya Angiras. 2. Rediscovering Gandhi education for truth and non-violence/Poonam Bawa and H.S. Rathore. 3. Challenges of globalization and the Gandhian alternative/Arvind Adityaraj. 4. The Gandhian Gospel and its relevance to the twenty first century/Ganesh Prasad and Anand Kumar. 5. Gandhi and Indian nationalism/Sanjeev Kumar. 6. Cesar Chavez: Mexican Gandhi/K.D. Chopade. 7. Significance of non-violence for peace/Ram Naresh Thakur and Sruendra Raoy. 8. The non-violence: the key of Gandhian studies/Himanshu Shekhar and Hemlata Jha. 9. Mahatma Gandhi: apostle of peace/D. Nirmala Devi. 10. Models of peace and Gandhi in modern democratic system/Shyam Chandra Gupta. 11. The concept of non-violence in Indian philosophies/Kamal Manohar. 12. Truth and non-violence: core principles of Gandhi/Hossien Nemat Zadeh Gara. 13. Training in non-violence/B.S. Bedi. 14. Role of educational institutions in promotion of peace and non-violence/Dayanidhi Prasad Roy and Reena Roy. 15. Gandhi’s education: essence of the complete man/Ranjit Kaur. 16. Media in Gandhian perspective/Manoj Rajan. 17. Gandhi’s socialism for peace/Ramesh Kumar. 18. Economic ideas of Gandhi/Tawinder Kaur. 19. Relevance of Gandhian humanistic concepts in modern world/Sheeja O.K. 20. Relevance of Mahatma Gandhi’s philosophy today/Amit Narula and Kusum Narula. 21. Relevance of Gandhi in the modern societies/Parmod Chauhan. 22. Buddhist perspectives of non-violence/Ranjana Bhardwaj. 23. Gandhi’s concept of humanism: an overview/Suresh Kumar Soni. 24. Gandhian philosophy of political change/Seema Pasricha. 25. Gandhi’s views on women/Kusum Solanky. 26. Women education in Punjab: a case study of Kanya Maha Vidyalaya, Jalandhar/Monica Sharma. 27. Gandhian approach to tribal issue/Ranju Devi. 28. Gandhi on peace, conflict and conflict resolutions/Sumit Narula. 29. Gandhi’s vision: a search for peace and security/Ranjan Bala. 30. Mahatma Gandhi: a life for non-violence/Kiyanoush Ghalavand. Index.
We have hailed Gandhi as Prophet, Crusader and Liberator but he has been seldom properly and critically understood. No doubt, he has been eulogized, romanticized and even mythologised but hardly conceptualized and rationalized. This is because there has been a general apathy among the intellectuals in our country who have only vague notions about Gandhi’s relevance. This is indeed a tragedy that intellectuals have yet to get adequately stimulated to go into the works and ideas of world’s greatest son since Socrates, Buddha and Jesus. The present volume aims at bridging this Gulf and to bring the Gandhian academicians and activists closer.
The present volume is the collection of scholarly papers presented in the International Conference of the Indian Society of Gandhian Studies in the Department of Gandhian Studies, Punjab University, Chandigarh.
