SATYAGRAHA

A Global Force for the 21st Century

Manoranjan Mohanty , Mannika Chopra

9789350029008

Aakar Books 2025

Language: English

252 Pages

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About the Book

1917, Champaran, Bihar. Satyagraha, a mass protest movement, experimented by Mahatma Gandhi earlier in South Africa, was launched to oppose the British colonial regime’s insistence that farmers grow indigo to serve British interests. Over a hundred years later, as these rich essyas by some leading scholars and activists of contemporary times such as Mark Jurgensmeyer, Beatriz Bissio, Ramin Jahanbegloo, Vinay Lal, Medha Patkar and Vandana Shiva show, Gandhi’s legacy of satyagraha remains a relevant moral-political force for struggling for justice, continuously evolving as a universal mode of social action. These contributions with case studies from South Africa, US and Latin America and India as well as theoretical perspectives, provide rare historical and cultural insights in understanding the dimensions and possibilities of satyagraha. They are an excellent resource for both the specialsit and the general public, indeed anyone interested in exploring the appeal of satyagraha as a mode of political action all over the world.

Mannika Chopra

Mannika Chopra is a senior journalist, columnist and media activist. Formerly Managing Editor of Social Change, she has taught at Lady Shri Ram College for Women, New Delhi and Columbia University, New York.

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