Mira Behn, Gandhiji's Daughter Disciple
Author | : Krishna Murti Gupta |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 338 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Nationalists |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Krishna Murti Gupta |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 338 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Nationalists |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Mahatma Gandhi |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 234 |
Release | : 1950 |
Genre | : Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand, 1869-1948 |
ISBN | : |
Contains 351 letters written by Gandhi from 1924-1948 to Mira (formerly Madeleine Slade), an English woman who abandoned her comfortable upper middle class life and went to India where she became a devoted follower, a "daughter" of Gandhi's.
Author | : Bidisha Mallik |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 557 |
Release | : 2022-06-15 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 3030954315 |
This book is about Madeleine Slade (1892-1982) and Catherine Mary Heilemann (1901-1982), two English associates of Mohandas K. (Mahatma) Gandhi (1869-1948), known in India as Mira Behn and Sarala Behn. The odysseys of these women present a counternarrative to the forces of imperialism, colonialism, capitalism, and globalized development. The book examines their extraordinary journey to India to work with Gandhi and their roles in India’s independence movement, their spiritual strivings, their independent work in the Himalayas, and most importantly, their contribution to the evolution of Gandhian philosophy of socio-economic reconstruction and environmental conservation in the present Indian state of Uttarakhand. The author shows that these women developed ideas and practices that drew from an extensive intellectual terrain that cannot be limited to Gandhi’s work. She delineates directions in which Gandhian thought and experiments in rural development work and visions of a new society evolved through the lives, activism, and written contributions of these two women. Their thought and practice generated a new cultural consciousness on sustainability that had a key influence in environmental debates in India and beyond and were responsible for two of the most important environmental movements of India and the world: the Chipko Movement or the movement against commercial green felling of trees by hugging them, and the protest against the Tehri high dam on the Bhagirathi River. To this day, their teachings and philosophies constitute a useful and significant contribution to the search for and implementation of global ideas of ecological conservation and human development.
Author | : Madeleine Slade |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 2013-10 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781258955878 |
This is a new release of the original 1960 edition.
Author | : Mirabehn |
Publisher | : Great River Books |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : Nationalists |
ISBN | : 9780915556120 |
The autobiography of Madeleine Slade, a young English woman who renounced her heritage of privilege to become, as Mirabehn, the intimate and trusted disciple of Mahatma Gandhi.
Author | : Ved Mehta |
Publisher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 2021-02-04 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 024150502X |
Ved Mehta's brilliant Mahatma Gandhi and his Apostles provides an unparalleled portrait of the man who lead India out of its colonial past and into its modern form. Travelling all over India and the rest of the world, Mehta gives a nuanced and complex, yet vividly alive, portrait of Gandhi and of those men and women who were inspired by his actions.
Author | : Mahatma Gandhi |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 537 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : Nationalists |
ISBN | : 9788125056157 |
Author | : Ramachandra Guha |
Publisher | : HarperCollins UK |
Total Pages | : 615 |
Release | : 2022-01-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0008498784 |
‘A narrative of startling originality ... As discussions of Britain’s colonial legacy become increasingly polarised, we are in ever more need of nuanced books like this one’ SAM DALRYMPLE, SPECTATOR ‘Fascinating and provocative’ LITERARY REVIEW
Author | : Madeleine Slade |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1951 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Thomas Weber |
Publisher | : Roli Books Private Limited |
Total Pages | : 298 |
Release | : 2011-02-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 8174369929 |
Gandhi’s relationship with women has proved irresistibly fascinating to many, but it is surprising how little scholarly work has been undertaken on his attitudes to and relationships with women. Going Native details Gandhi’s relationship with Western women, including those who inspired him, worked with him, supported him in his political activities in South Africa, or helped shape his international image. Of particular note are those women who ‘went native’ to live with Gandhi as close friends and disciples, those who were drawn to him because of a shared interest in celibacy, those who came seeking a spiritual master, or came because of mental confusion. Some joined him because they were fixated on his person rather than because of an interest in his social programme. Through these fascinating women, we get a different insight into Gandhi, who encouraged them to come and then was often captivated, and at times exasperated, by them.