Gandhian Alternative (Set of 5 Volumes)

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Volume-1 : Towards Gandhian World Order
Volume-2 : Nonviolence-in-Action
Volume-3 : Socio-Political Thoughts
Volume-4 : Economics Where People Matter
Volume-5 : Education for Self-Realisation

This series, running into five volumes, reflects the general attitude of people towards non-violence as a means to resolve various kinds of conflicts and to bring about peace and harmony in the world. Prepared under the joint auspices of Delhi Society of Non-violence, New Delhi, and International Centre of Gandhian Studies and Research, Gandhi Darshan, New Delhi, it addresses a host of issues pertaining to Gandhian World Order, non- violence in action, socio-political thoughts of Gandhi, his concept of economy, and his views on education as well as self- realisation.

Dealing with selected dimensions of Gandhian thought relevant to the debate on Gandhian World Order, volume one defines the main features of the reigning world orders-liberalism, socialism and realism and traces the significance of Gandhi in the contemporary world order. It also presents Gandhian diagnosis of world problems as well as their solution.

Prof. R.P. Misra, a former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Allahabad and Chief Technical Advisor of the United Nations, is a well-known development planner and Gandhian scholar He founded the Institute of Development Studies, University of Mysore in 1971 and remained its director until 1979. He was the vice-director of the UN Centre for Regional Development, Japan (1979-84). Most recently (2002-04), he was Mahatma Gandhi National Fellow of Gandhi Smriti & Darshan Samiti, New Delhi. He began his academic life as a social geographer; then he moved to the field of Development Planning and finally arrived at Gandhian Studies. Editor of Anasakti Darshan, an international journal of non-violence-in-action. He has authored and edited over fifty seminal books.

Prof. K.D. Gangrade, is curently, the Vice-Chairman of Gandhi Smriti & Darshan Samiti, New Delhi. He was the founder of the Delhi School of Social Work, and Pro-Vice-Chancellor of the University of Delhi. His writings on the theory and practice of social work and more recently on Gandhian thought are well known both in India and abroad.

World Order is a product of ideas and ideologies pertaining to different aspects of life-politics, economic, commerce, ecology and culture. It is continental and global in spread. The concept of World Order is more inclusive than the concept of international order. The world we live in today is an extension of what it was in the 19th century or still earlier, which heralded great changes in Europe. During these centuries what was good for Europe was considered good for the whole world.

By the advent of the twentieth century the ruling world order remained Euro-centric but deviations burst forth from within. The Russians rejected its imperial order, and thus was born the Soviet socialism, which remained current until the fag end of the twentieth century and which gave rise to what is known as the era of Cold War. The World War II weakened the European imperial states; they found it difficult to contain the freedom struggles launched by the colonized people of India and China especially. These two great countries of Asia with ancient most living civilisations overthrew the colonial powers by novel means thus sowing the seeds of newer world orders. China fought against American supported Kuomintang under the leadership of Mao Tse-tung, swept the great landmass from North to South and established through violent means a socialist state with rural peasantry as the base. On the other hand, India under the leadership of Mahatama Gandhi, using nonviolence as a weapon, opted for a socialistic pattern of society with multi-layered liberal democratic institutions. Thus two new world orders were born, one following the Soviet model but differing from it to suit its local genius and the other following the European-cum-American model of democracy but deviating from it in many respects to suit its own genius.

Book's Contents and Sample Pages