01400nam a2200205   45000010005000000100015000050200015000201000031000352450074000662460019001402600049001593000026002084400028002345040065002625050586003275200211009136000033011246500016011576500021011736668  a2005283471  a01956519521 aIyer, Raghavan,d1930-198614aThe moral and political thought of Mahatma Gandhi /cRaghavan N. Iyer30aMahatma Gandhi  aNew Delhi ;bOxford University Press,c2000.  axiii, 449 p. ;c22 cm 0aOxford India paperbacks  aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [419]-421) and index  aCONTENTS: 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.  grt  aIyer 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.10aGandhi,cMahatma,d1869-1948 0aNonviolence 0aPolitical ethics