Gandhi’s Devotional Political Thought
@article{Gray2015GandhisDP, title={Gandhi’s Devotional Political Thought}, author={Stuart Gray and Thomas M. Hughes}, journal={Philosophy East and West}, year={2015}, volume={65}, pages={375 - 400} }
The political thought of Mohandas K. Gandhi increasingly has been used as a paradigmatic example of hybrid political thought that developed out of a cross-cultural dialogue of Eastern and Western influences. With a novel unpacking of this hybridity, this article focuses on the conceptual influences that Gandhi explicitly stressed in his autobiography and other writings, particularly the works of Leo Tolstoy and the Bhagavad Gītā. This new tracing of influence in the development of Gandhi’s…
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