Gandhi, Truth, and Nonviolence The Politics of Engagement in Post-Truth Times

Vinay Lal, Professor of History, University of California, Los Angeles

Vinay Lal is Professor of History at the University of California, Los Angeles, USA. Lal studied history, literature, and philosophy at the Johns Hopkins University, before earning his doctorate from the Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago. He has also taught at Columbia University and the University of Delhi. He is the author or editor of twenty books, eight of them from OUP, and his writings span a vast canvas of modern Indian and colonial history, historiography, public culture, global politics, cinema, political psychology, and the politics of knowledge systems.

0. Introduction: The Measure of a Man The Many Enigmas and Strange Journeys of Mohandas Gandhi, Vinay Lal1. The Topography of Nonviolence, Faisal Devji2. A Different Vision: Gandhi's Critique of Political Rationality, Uday Singh Mehta3. Along the Way to Gandhi's Neighbour, Ajay Skaria4. Historical Memory and American Nonviolence: Recovering the Radical Roots and Vision of the 'American Gandhi' A. J. Muste, Leilah Danielson5. On the Exchanges between Gandhi and Tagore, Sudipta Kaviraj6. The Unbearable Lightness of Being Mahatma, Sumathi Ramaswamy7. A Rasatmaka Journey: Aesthetics and Moral Fervour in Gandhi's Quest, Neelima Shukla-Bhatt8. On Sorcery of Peace and Nonviolence: A Note on Gandhi's Yogic Fearlessness and Omnipotent Yoga, Yohanan Grinshpon9. Gandhi, the Indian National Congress, and the Jewish Question, Vinay Lal10. Satyagraha in America-Gandhi, King, and the Politics of Fasting: James Lawson in Conversation with Vinay Lal, Vinay Lal11. On Being Impervious to the Discreet Charms of M. K. Gandhi, Tridip Suhrud12. Exemplary Citizens and the Symbolic Politics of Nonviolent Protest, Karuna Mantena13. Advocate Gandhi: Race, Role, and Transformation?, Charles R. DiSalvo