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Gandhi and the fellowship of reconciliation: nonviolent tactics in the early Civil Rights Movement
No full textIn the late 1930s and early 1940s, more than twenty years before the height of\ud
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the civil rights movement, a group of pacifists known as the Fellowship of Reconciliation (FOR) \ud
contested injustices facing African Americans in the United States. Prominent members of FOR, \ud
including George Houser, Homer Jack, and A.J. Muste, were close fol- lowers of Mahatma Gandhi???s \ud
teachings, especially the nonviolent tactics he employed in\ud
the fight for Indian independence. the fight for Indian independence. Members of FOR began developing tactics shaped\ud
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after Gandhi???s nonviolent philosophy, holding race relations institutes and interracial workshops \ud
to teach activists in different communities how to tackle segregation through demonstrations \ud
including sit-ins and boycotts. Although FOR made progress with its\ud
demonstrations, its members wanted to have a greater effect in the community so they created the nonviolent, direct-action organization, the Congress of Racial Equality\ud
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(CORE), in 1942. Along with FOR, CORE took part in nonviolent demonstrations to fight segregation. \ud
These smaller demonstrations eventually led members of FOR and CORE to plan a large demonstration \ud
in 1947 known as the Journey of Reconciliation. That demon- stration, as well as the sit-ins and \ud
boycotts started by the members of FOR, influenced the members of CORE and the post-Brown civil \ud
rights movement, culminating in national figures on the order of Martin Luther King Jr. and \ud
demonstrations such as the\ud
Freedom Rides of 1961.CSU, Chic
(書簡)Date: 1997/2/25 ; Sender: Gandhi, Sonia ; Receiver: Tsuru, S (Shigeto)
No full text2枚SONIA GANDHI用紙書簡オリジナルの所在: 一橋大学経済研究所資料室都留重人氏より寄贈1-B1-06-09/00
Open Access to public funded research: a discussion in the context of Mahatma Gandhi University digital archives of doctoral dissertations
Get PDFThe importance of doctoral dissertations, the extent of public funds utilized for their production, their need for open access, concepts of Open Access (OA), and the arguments for and against OA are discussed in detail. A brief historical outline of the attempts in India for digitizing and providing OA to dissertations is provided. The development of the Mahatma Gandhi University (MGU) Open Access Digital Archive is examined as an opportunity for other implementers and developers to gain both technical and non-technical insight. The paper suggests establishment of a national agency for ensuring OA to doctoral dissertations produced in Indian universities. Discussion on OA initiatives and the creation of OA Archive of dissertations at MGU can reveal to other institutions in India that it is not a costly or difficult task as generally considered. The paper can infuse interest and confidence to universities and research institutions in India to provide OA to their research works
Psycho-Historical Perceptions of Gandhi
Get PDFThe literature on leadership has its roots in the “Great Man” Theory of Thomas Carlyle, who declared that “The history of the world is but the biography of great men”. These works which emphasised only political, economic, and social motivations for events, gave way to Erikson‟s, “Gandhi‟s Truth: On the Origins of Militant Nonviolence”, is an attempt at understanding Gandhi through a Psycho-biographical study. Psycho-history analyses the incidents that left a deep impression on Gandhi and examines these experiences that Gandhi used on his techniques such as fasting, Ahimsa and Satyagraha later on. The present paper is a historiographical account of the psycho-historical writings on Gandhi. Erikson‟s seminal work which actually gained for Psychohistory its recognition, forms the major source of this paper and also includes some more recently published works such as Wolpert, Richards and Lelyveld. These narratives have explored the varied facets of his personality and his identity which had blurred between myth and history. Gandhi in most writings is raised to the stature of the Mahatma, but psycho-history has done justice to his character as it brings out the human side of the leader with all his frailties
S. Lassier. Gandhi et la non-violence
No full textBareau André. S. Lassier. Gandhi et la non-violence. In: Revue de l'histoire des religions, tome 193, n°1, 1978. p. 119
Multilingual Searching in Digital Archives: A Case Study of Mahatma Gandhi University On-line Theses Archive
Get PDFThe Paper examines the multilingual search capabilities of Mahatma Gandhi University on-line theses archive using the first Digital Library solution with capabilities for information retrieval from full texts in Indian languages. The study finds that the multilingual search features of the Mahatma Gandhi University archive helps the user with more relevant hits than in any similar systems used in India
Satyagraha and Ahimsa in Gandhi´s religious and philosophical interpretation.
No full textPráce se zaměřuje na Mahátmu Gándhího a jeho filosofii aktivního odporu a jógínského principu nenásilí. Cílem práce je důkladné zmapování pojmů satjágraha a ahimsa. Dále se pak práce v jednotlivých podkapitolách zabývá jejich aplikací v Gándhího pojetí, které se ukázalo velice úrodným zejména na poli politickém. Jeho kultura dialogu byla dobrým sítem na násilníky a despoty i zárukou alespoň postupného pozvednutí Indů z nesmírné chudoby. Ve srovnání s chudými kolosy jako je Čína nebo Rusko se Gándhího zásluhy na málo násilném vývoji Indie těžko dají přecenit, ba ani s čímkoli stejně velkým srovnávat. V tomto boji Gándhí uspěl na výtečnou: sami Britové ho nedávno v anketě BBC zvolili za největší osobnost uplynulého tisíciletí.The work focuses on Mahátma Gandhi and his philosophy of active resistance and yogi´s principle of nonviolence. The aim of this work is a complete description of terms satyagraha and ahimsa. Next the work deals with application of this two terms in Gandhi´s concept, which has revealed itself very rich especially in the field of politics. His culture of dialogue was a good sieve for hard characters and despots and also a guarantee of gradual uplift of the Indians from vast poverty. In comparison with poor colossuses as China or Russia are, Gandhi´s merits on nonviolent development of India are difficult to overestimate, nor compare with something that big. In this fight Gandhi was successful: in the BBC survey the British themselves have recently elected him the most outstanding personality of the last millenium.Katedra religionistiky a filosofieDokončená práce s úspěšnou obhajobo
Animating Gandhi
No full textThis chapter discusses how the Indian American character is the accent or the suburban “sidekick” character to the dominant narratives of young, white masculinity that are prevalent in American culture. The representation and use of the historical figure Mohandas Gandhi in the MTV animated series Clone High revisits and challenges American representations of Asian Americans and South Asian Americans as model minorities. The use of the historical leader Gandhi as a teenage “geek” sidekick without recognition of how Gandhi fits into South Asian history and influences South Asian American communities shows how American stereotypes dwarf any other representation of South Asians or South Asian Americans in the United States.</p
Mehta (Ved) : Rajiv Gandhi and Rama' s Kingdom
No full textBullier Antoine J. Mehta (Ved) : Rajiv Gandhi and Rama' s Kingdom. In: Revue française d'histoire d'outre-mer, tome 83, n°311, 2e trimestre 1996. pp. 152-153
Mehta (Ved) : Rajiv Gandhi and Rama' s Kingdom
No full textBullier Antoine J. Mehta (Ved) : Rajiv Gandhi and Rama' s Kingdom. In: Revue française d'histoire d'outre-mer, tome 83, n°311, 2e trimestre 1996. pp. 152-153
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