Rethinking Satyagraha: Truth, Travel and Translation
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With contribution from leading scholars from across the world, Rethinking Satyagraha is a pioneering effort in reiterating the epochal significance of Satyagraha for the 21st century. It makes an important contribution to contemporary Gandhian scholarship and new horizons of social and political theory. It will be of interest to scholars and researchers of movement and resistance studies, Gandhi, Indian philosophy, cultural studies, literary studies, religious studies, development studies, sociology, anthropology, political science and future studies.
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Ananta Kumar Giri is the Founding Honorary Executive Trustee of Vishwaneedam Center for Asian Blossoming, Puducherry and Chennai. After three decades of service, he retired as a Professor from the Madras Institute of Development Studies, Chennai, India, in March 2025. He has taught and done research in many universities in India and abroad, including Aalborg University (Denmark), Maison des sciences de l’homme (Paris, France), the University of Kentucky (USA), University of Freiburg & Humboldt University (Germany), Jagiellonian University (Poland), and Jawaharlal Nehru University (New Delhi). He has an abiding interest in social movements and cultural change, criticism, creativity and contemporary dialectics of transformation, theories of self, culture and society, and creative streams in education, philosophy, and literature. Dr Giri has written and edited more than six dozen books in Odia and English.
