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In Gandhi's Ark

By Shashi Joshi (Author)
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In Gandhi's Ark
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About the book: The book focuses on Gandhi's relationships with his Christian friends with whom he carried on many discussions on religion and spirituality. With some of these friends he maintained a life long relationship while many others visited and stayed in his Ashrams on various occasions. The theme of this book is novel and largely unexplored. The central theme reveals his catholicity and complete openness to all religious ideas, beliefs and practices. Interestingly, he evolved his own belief system and practices that were determinedly opposed to all orthodoxies and unquestioning religiosity. The conventional emphases on Gandhi as a practitioner of political ideas does not find a place in this book. Instead, Gandhi's life practices that were likened to Socrates' by his Christian confidants, are located in the context of the philosophical life of thinkers.

About the Author: Shashi Joshi did her Master's in history from Delhi University and her MPhil/PhD from Jawaharlal Nehru University. New Delhi. She taught history at Miranda House, Delhi University for twenty-two years before becoming a full time researcher. She was twice a Fellow at the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library and twice a Fellow at the IIAS, Shimla. She was also a short term fellow at the Yale Divinity School, Connecticut; School of Divinity, Edinburgh; Visiting Fellow at Queen Elizabeth House, University of Oxford; the Southampton University, UK; the Maison de la Homme, Paris, and a visiting fellow at the Rikkyo University, Tokyo. She was also a Co-Director of the ICCSR Project on the History of the Indian National Movement. Her publications include a three-volume study on Nationalism titled Struggle for Hegemony in India, (Sage)and three volumes on the History of the Indian Communists(Sage); Caste, Religion and Christianity (IIAS), The Last Durbar (OUP).


ISBN: 978-93-82396-57-4 About the book: The book focuses on Gandhi's relationships with his Christian friends with whom he carried on many discussions on religion and spirituality. With some of these friends he maintained a life long relationship while many others visited and stayed in his Ashrams on various occasions. The theme of this book is novel and largely unexplored. The central theme reveals his catholicity and complete openness to all religious ideas, beliefs and practices. Interestingly, he evolved his own belief system and practices that were determinedly opposed to all orthodoxies and unquestioning religiosity. The conventional emphases on Gandhi as a practitioner of political ideas does not find a place in this book. Instead, Gandhi's life practices that were likened to Socrates' by his Christian confidants, are located in the context of the philosophical life of thinkers.About the Author: Shashi Joshi did her Master's in history from Delhi University and her MPhil/PhD from Jawaharlal Nehru University. New Delhi. She taught history at Miranda House, Delhi University for twenty-two years before becoming a full time researcher. She was twice a Fellow at the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library and twice a Fellow at the IIAS, Shimla. She was also a short term fellow at the Yale Divinity School, Connecticut; School of Divinity, Edinburgh; Visiting Fellow at Queen Elizabeth House, University of Oxford; the Southampton University, UK; the Maison de la Homme, Paris, and a visiting fellow at the Rikkyo University, Tokyo. She was also a Co-Director of the ICCSR Project on the History of the Indian National Movement. Her publications include a three-volume study on Nationalism titled Struggle for Hegemony in India, (Sage)and three volumes on the History of the Indian Communists(Sage); Caste, Religion and Christianity (IIAS), The Last Durbar (OUP).ISBN: 978-93-82396-57-4

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  • : In Gandhi's Ark
  • : Shashi Joshi
  • : Indian Institute of Advanced Study
  • : Hardcover
  • : 2018
  • : xiv+184
  • : English

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