Rajmohan Gandhi Knihy

Born Into The Muhammadzai Tribe, From The Charsadda Valley In The Pakhtun Heartland, Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan Was A Passionate Believer In The Nonviolent Core Of Islam And Sought To Wean His People&Mdash;The Fierce Warrior Pakhtuns Or Pathans Of The North-West Frontier Province&Mdash;From Their Violent Traditions And Fight For A Separate Pakhtun Homeland That Would No Longer Be A Buffer Between Russia And Britain In The Great Game. In 1929 Came Mahatma Gandhi&Rsquo;S Call For Nonviolent Resistance Against British Rule And Badshah Khan, Responded By Raising The Khudai Khidmatgars (&Lsquo;Servants Of God&Rsquo;), An &Lsquo;Army&Rsquo; Of 1,00,000 Men Who Pledged Themselves To The Service Of Mankind And Nonviolence As A Creed. For This, And For His Steadfast Devotion To His Principles, This Towering Figure Was Imprisoned For A Total Of Twenty-Seven Years, First By The British And Later By The Pakistani Government. This Is A Perceptive Biography That Offers Fresh Insights Into The Life And Achievements Of An Extraordinary Man, Drawing Close Parallels With The Life Of Mahatma Gandhi, His &Lsquo;Brother In Spirit&Rsquo;.

Exploring the theme of kinship beyond biological ties, this book delves into the connections formed through shared experiences and emotional bonds. It highlights how relationships can transcend traditional family structures, emphasizing the importance of community and chosen families in shaping identity and belonging. Through various narratives and perspectives, the author illustrates the profound impact of these connections on individuals' lives, encouraging readers to reflect on their own relationships and the meaning of family in a broader sense.

The biography explores the life of Darbar Gopaldas, a notable figure from Gujarat, who was a beloved ruler and a key participant in India's fight for independence. Born in 1887 into a princely Patel clan, his contributions to both governance and the freedom movement highlight his significance as a leader. The book aims to shed light on Gopaldas's legacy, especially in the context of contemporary interest in Gujarat's historical figures, making it a timely tribute to a largely forgotten hero of India's past.

Close to 150 years after he was born, how relevant is Mahatma Gandhi? In our country, he is revered as the Father of the Nation; his face still adorns currency notes, postage stamps and government offices; streets and welfare schemes continue to be named after him but has he been reduced to a mere symbol? Do his values, message and sacrifice have any meaning for us in the twenty-first century? In Why Gandhi Still Matters, the Mahatma's grandson and award-winning writer and scholar Rajmohan Gandhi, appraises Gandhi and his legacy by examining some of his most famous (and often most controversial) ideas, beliefs, actions, successes and failures. He analyses Gandhi's commitment to democracy, secularism, pluralism, equality and non-violence, his gift to the world of satyagraha, the key strategies in his fight for India's freedom, his opposition to caste discrimination, and his equations with Churchill, Jinnah and Ambedkar, as also his failings as a human being and family man. Taken together, the author's insights present an unsentimental view of aspects of Gandhi's legacy that have endured and those that have been cast aside by power-hungry politicians, hate groups, casteist organizations, venal industrialists, terrorists, and other enemies of India's promise.

The South India story attempted here is of a peninsular region influenced by the oceans, not by the Himalayas. Yet it is more than that. It is a story of facets of four powerful culturesKannada, Malayalam, Tamil and Telugu, to name them in alphabetical orderand yet more than that, for Kodava, Konkani, Marathi, Oriya and Tulu cultures have also influenced it, as also other older and possibly more indigenous cultures often seen as tribal, as well as cultures originating in other parts of India and the world. With South Indias Malayalam region being (in modern times) the most balanced in terms of religion and also the most literate, its Kannada zone occupying South Indias geographical centre and containing the sites of the Vijayanagara kingdom and also the kingdom of Haidar and Tipu, its Telugu portion the largest in area and holding the most people, and its Tamil part the most Dravidian and possessing the oldest literature, the four principal cultures are, unsurprisingly, competitive. But they are also complementary. This is a Dravidian story, and also more than that. It is a story involving four centuries, the seventeenth, eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth, yet other periods intrude upon it...

Rajmohan Gandhi bietet in seiner einf�hlsamen Biografie neue Einsichten in das Leben und die Leistungen des Pathanen (Paschtunen) Khan Abdul Gaffar Khans, des Gr�nders der Bewegung der Khudai Khidmatgars (Diener Gottes), einer ,,Armee" von 100 000 M�nnern, die sich eidlich dem Dienst an der Menschheit und der Gewaltfreiheit verpflichtet hatten. Sein Wirkungsbereich war vor allem die damalige ,,Nordwestgrenzprovinz" Indiens. Der Autor zieht enge Parallelen zwischen dem Leben Badshah Khans und dem Leben Mahatma Gandhis, Khans ,,Bruders im Geist". Wie dieser widmete er sich dem Kampf um Befreiung von der britischen Kolonialherrschaft und der Verbesserung der Lebensumst�nde seiner Landsleute. India Today urteilte �ber das Buch: ,,Ein hervorragend lesbares und gut ausgef�hrtes Portrait."

Written with unprecedented insight and access to family archives, this definitive biography of Gandhi sheds new light on the life of a man who was far more complicated and conflicted than his received public image suggests. For the first time, this book gives us the true Gandhi, the man as well as the legend.

A fascinating account of the Muslims in twentieth-century India, Pakistan and Bangladesh through his biographical sketches of eight prominent Muslims- Sayyid Ahmed Khan (1817-1898), Fazlul Haq (1873-1962), Muhammad Ali Jinnah (1876-1948), Muhammad Iqbal (1876-1938), Muhammad Ali (1878-1931), Abul Kalam Azad (1888-1958), Liaqat Ali Khan (1895-1951) and Zakir Hussain (1897-1969) Rajmohan Gandhi, the grandson of Mahatma Gandhi, provides a deeply insightful and comprehensive picture of the community in the subcontinent today.

Focusing on the tumultuous history of undivided Punjab, Rajmohan Gandhi chronicles the region from the death of Aurangzeb in the early 18th century to the violent partition in 1947. This comprehensive account explores the struggles for control over the fertile land, detailing the impact of various empires and invaders. Gandhi's work not only highlights key historical events but also provides insight into the cultural and political dynamics that shaped Punjab during a critical period in its history.