Iyer, Raghavan,  1930-1986 <br/><br/>
The moral and political thought of Mahatma Gandhi / 
 Mahatma Gandhi 
Raghavan N. Iyer 
 - New Delhi ;  Oxford University Press,  2000. 
 - xiii, 449 p. ;  22 cm 
 - Oxford India paperbacks .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. [419]-421) and index 
<br/><br/>CONTENTS: Introduction -- The indictment of modern  civilization -- The purification of politics -- The need  for absolute values and for vows -- Human nature,  progress and perfectibility -- Individual conscience and  heroism in society -- Satya absolute and relative truth - - Ahimsa nonviolence as a creed and a policy -- Satya and  Ahimsa the relation between truth and nonviolence --  Satyagraha active and passive resistance -- The scope and  significance of Satyagraha -- Swaraj and swadeshi self- rule and self-reliance -- Means and ends in politics --  Assessment.         
<br/><br/> Iyer elucidates the central concepts in the moral and  political thought of Mahatma Gandhi and brings out the  subtlety, potency and universal import of Gandhi's  political ethic, in theory and in practice. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0195651952 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2005283471 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Gandhi, Mahatma,  1869-1948 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Nonviolence<br/>Political ethics