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Confluence of thought : Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr / Bidyut Chakrabarty and Clayborne Carson.
Contributor(s): Carson, Clayborne [contributor.]
.Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press, 2013Description: 1 online resource.Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780199346004 (ebook) :.Subject(s): Gandhi, Mahatma, 1869-1948 -- Political and social views | King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968 -- Political and social views | Nonviolence -- Philosophy -- United States | Nonviolence -- Philosophy -- India | Nonviolence -- Religious aspectsAdditional Physical Form: Print version 9780199951215DDC classification: 303.61 Online resources: Oxford scholarship online Summary: The aim of this book is to understand the complex evolution of the socio-political ideas of Gandhi and King and also their confluence in the specific context of India and America respectively. Based on a threadbare analysis of socio-political ideas of Gandhi and King, the book argues that the moral politics of redemptive love and non-violence that they consistently pursued represents an appealing vision for the present century.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
The aim of this book is to understand the complex evolution of the socio-political ideas of Gandhi and King and also their confluence in the specific context of India and America respectively. Based on a threadbare analysis of socio-political ideas of Gandhi and King, the book argues that the moral politics of redemptive love and non-violence that they consistently pursued represents an appealing vision for the present century.
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