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Gandhi Hind Swaraj
Gandhi Hind Swaraj
Gandhi Hind Swaraj
GANDHI
Hind Swaraj
and other writings
edited by
ANTHONY J . PAREL
University of Calgary, Canada
CAMBRIDGE
UNIVERSITY PRESS
also saw the same point when he drew a comparison between genuine
satyagrahis and Jesuits trained in intelligence and deep will (Heard 1949,
88) . In short, Hind Swaraj, besides being a dialogue on swaraj, is also an
intensely 'spiritual' and intensely 'practical' book, one that teaches that
there is a link between inner life and outer achievement, that individual
regeneration and national regeneration constitute one continuum.
However difficult the task of bringing about outer transformation may
appear to be, there is always something that the concerned individual can
do, and that is to try to bring about his or her inner transformation . That
certainly was the point of some advice that Gandhi once gave to a
colleague who felt somewhat discouraged the first time he read Hind
Swaraj . This colleague had wondered : what can one individual do to
emancipate India? 'Please do not carry unnecessarily on your head the
burden of emancipating India', Gandhi wrote back . 'Emancipate your
own self. Even that burden is very great . Apply everything to yourself.
Nobility of soul consists in realising that you are yourself India . In your
emancipation is the emancipation of India . All else is make-believe' (CW
1909
and
November on board the Kildonan Castle, on Gandhi's return trip
from England to South Africa ; it was published in two instalments
in the the Gujarati section of Indian Opinion (11 and 19 December).
Published in book form in January by Gandhi's own International
Printing Press, Phoenix, Natal, South Africa ; the Gujarati text was
banned from India for security reasons, 24 March ; the English
translation by Gandhi, under the title Indian Home Rule, with
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1910
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1919
1921
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The present editor, following the Madras and Ahmedabad editors, has
added a table of contents which the 1910 edition did not have . Where
appropriate, spelling and punctuation have been brought up to date;
other editorial changes to the 1910 text have been duly noted in the
footnotes .
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takes the vow of chastity; at a mass meeting moves the famous
resolution IV proposing civil disobedience against anti-Indian
racial legislation; visits London on a Transvaal Indian Deputation
to lobby for Indian interests.
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