GLOBAL GANDHI: IMPERIAL RESISTANCE AND COLONIAL POLITICS

Credit Hours: 3 · Undergraduate Lower-Level

This course is organized around the political thought and action of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, as well as that of his interlocutors, including Tagore, Savarkar, Ambedkar, Nehru, Jinnah, and Godse. Through their dialogue and engagement, Gandhi developed a framework of thought and action the enabled him to critique modernity, Western civilization, and British imperialism. This class will explore diverse and often contradictory anticolonial perspectives, the nature of civil disobedience, the value of equality, the harm of violence, and what it means to be human amidst technological change.