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Gandhigiri-Reinterpreting Gandhi in modern context
Coordinator: Dr B.N. Ray

In a time ravaged by large scale violence and unending terror wars, nothing seems more promising and urgent than to be reminded of another possibility of the non-violent struggle for justice exemplified by Mahatma Gandhi. Gandhi continues to be subject of enduring relevance and interest as it is evident in the interest and passion generated by popular movie Lage Raho Munnabhai. Gandhigiri is gradually entering into popular imagination and academic discourses. His writing, running into more than one hundred volumes contains wide range of views on different issues. In the nearly six decades since his death a large and diverse range of writings - comparative, expository, biographical, hagiographical and dialogical - has appeared on Gandhi.

This course focuses attention on issues of continuing relevance - tradition, modernity, nation, women, caste, race and environment - thereby giving the course a contemporary flavour. The leitmotif of the course promises and promotes a fruitful dialogue with a creative and original thinker whose ideas and practices deserve far more than either adoration or dismissal.

Every generation re-examines the past, trying to understand it anew. It may be a difference in perspective, or the knowledge of new facts, which alter the picture - sometimes superficially, sometimes totally. India today is clearly reassessing the legacy of Gandhi, and his continuing relevance.

This course closely examines different interpretations of Gandhi's view and ideas on myriad issues, and in doing so, it moves beyond existing scholarship.

This course on Gandhi provides an essential new reference for students and scholars of politics, history, philosophy as well as general readers, activist and admirers of Gandhi.

Topics
1. Philosophical and Intellectual Sources of Gandhi's ideas
2. Satyagraha
3. Gandhi, Admbedkar and Untouchability
4. Gandhi and Women Empowerment
5. Communal Harmony
6. Gandhigiri and Conflict Resolution
7. Gandhi's Contemporary Relevance
8. Gandhi and Postmodernism
9. Film shows on Gandhi