{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/7a3c5644-595b-4535-89cb-4df503953241/13b2d1db-0c6a-4a9e-ae93-f9b7b32065a5?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Gandhi on self-rule","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/6195407ecb03c875f76170fd/6195408d054fb40012de7d37.jpg?height=200","description":"<p>Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi’s <em>Hind Swaraj (</em>1909) was a defining text of the movement for Indian independence from British colonial rule.&nbsp;It also articulated a radical new idea of politics in a modern context – peaceful protest or non-violent resistance.&nbsp;David explores the wider legacy of Gandhi’s ideas and asks what Gandhi’s withering attack on ‘machine’ politics means for the politics we have today.</p><p><br></p><p>Free online version of the text:</p><ul><li><a href=\"https://www.mkgandhi.org/ebks/hind_swaraj.pdf\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.mkgandhi.org/ebks/hind_swaraj.pdf</a>&nbsp;</li></ul><p>Recommended version to purchase:&nbsp;</p><ul><li><a href=\"https://www.cambridge.org/gb/academic/subjects/politics-international-relations/texts-political-thought/gandhi-hind-swaraj-and-other-writings-2nd-edition?format=PB\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.cambridge.org/gb/academic/subjects/politics-international-relations/texts-political-thought/gandhi-hind-swaraj-and-other-writings-2nd-edition?format=PB</a></li></ul><p>Going Deeper:</p><ul><li><a href=\"https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v09/n15/stephen-haggard/india-is-celebrating-the-40th-anniversary-of-its-independence.-stephen-haggard-writes-about-the-role-of-mahatma-gandhi\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Stephen Haggard on Gandhi for the LRB</a></li><li><a href=\"https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/574/57413/an-autobiography/9780141186863.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">M.K. Gandhi, An autobiography: or the story with my experiments of truth (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 2001).</a></li><li><a href=\"https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/175/175673/gandhi-1914-1948/9780141044231.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Ramachandra Guha, <em>Gandhi: The Years that Changed the World 1915-1948</em></a></li><li><a href=\"https://www.talkingpoliticspodcast.com/blog/2018/121-gandhis-politics\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Talking Politics with Ramachandra Guha on Gandhi’s politics</a></li><li><a href=\"https://global.oup.com/academic/product/gandhi-a-very-short-introduction-9780192854575?cc=gb&amp;lang=en&amp;\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Bhikhu Parekh, Gandhi: a very short introduction (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001).</a></li><li><a href=\"https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/king-papers/documents/my-trip-land-gandhi\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Martin Luther King, ‘My Trip to the Land of Gandhi’</a></li><li><a href=\"https://www.ele.uri.edu/faculty/vetter/Other-stuff/The-Machine-Stops.pdf\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">E.M. Forster, ‘The Machine Stops’</a></li></ul>","author_name":"Talking Politics"}