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100	1		_aIyer, Raghavan, _d1930-1986
245	1	4	_aThe moral and political thought of Mahatma Gandhi / _cRaghavan N. Iyer
246	3	0	_aMahatma Gandhi
260			_aNew Delhi ; _bOxford University Press, _c2000.
300			_axiii, 449 p. ; _c22 cm
440		0	_aOxford India paperbacks
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [419]-421) and index
505			_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. _g _r _t
520			_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.
600	1	0	_aGandhi, _cMahatma, _d1869-1948
650		0	_aNonviolence
650		0	_aPolitical ethics
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