The Moral and Political Thought of Mahatma Gandhi
- ISBN-10
- 0195023579
- ISBN-13
- 9780195023572
- Category
- Nonviolence
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1978
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, USA
- Author
- Raghavan N. Iyer
Description
In this book, first published by OUP USA in 1973, Professor Iyer elucidates the central concepts in the moral and political thought of Mahatma Gandhi, bringing out the subtlety, potency, and universal importance of his concepts of truth and non-violence, freedom and obligation, and his view ofthe relation between means and ends in politics.
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