Gandhi and the World

Debidatta Aurobinda Mahapatra is the director of Mahatma Gandhi Center for Non-Violence, Human Rights and World Peace at Hindu University of America.Yashwant Pathak is professor and associate dean for faculty affairs at the College of Pharmacy, University of South Florida (USF).

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Revisiting Gandhi, by Debidatta Aurobinda Mahapatra and Yashwant PathakChapter 1: Two Worlds: Gandhi and the Modern World, by Johan Galtung Chapter 2: Mahatma Gandhi, International Relations and War, by Debidatta Aurobinda MahapatraChapter 3: The Future of Humanity between War and Peace, by Abdelwahab HechicheChapter 4: Satyagraha and the Bodhisattva Way: Spiritual Training for Personal and Political Liberation Today, by Frank M. TedescoChapter 5: Swaraj as Blossoming and Satyagraha as Co-Realizations: Compassion, Confrontation and a New Art of Integration, by Ananta GiriChapter 6: “God is not in Temples, so it doesn’t Matter Who Enters Them”: Jiddu Krishnamurti’s Critique of Gandhi’s Ahimsa principle, and the Problem of Advaita-based Ethics, by Richard GregoChapter 7: The Concept of Non-violence in the Thinking of Leo N. Tolstoy and Mahatma Gandhi: Utopia or Reality? By Anna HamlingChapter 8: Sustainable Development and Tribal Populations: Spiritual and Gandhian Approach, by Ravi BhatiaChapter 9: Beyond Intolerance: Policies for Ethnic Communities Assimilation in India: A Gandhian Perspective, by Bina SengarChapter 10: Applicability of Gandhian Principle of Non-violence in the Ethno-religious Conflicts among Hindu Community of North Carolina, USA, by Narayan KhadkaAbout the ContributorsAppendix A: A Message from Tulsi Gabbard, the United States Congresswoman Appendix B: A Message from Ela R. Bhatt, Chancellor, Gujarat Vidyapith

A stimulating collection of essays that explore and reflect on Gandhi’s continued relevance to a wide range of social and political tensions in the twenty-first century.