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This book provides fresh insights into the autobiography of Mahatma Gandhi, My Experiments with Truth, and identifies the moral lessons it offers not ony to the individuals but also for the moral reconstruction of our society. Critically examining Gandhi’s perspective on human rights and social work practice, it contains three case studies of Gandhian way of conflict resolution. Gandhian agenda for the twenty-first century and some pertinent issues generally ...
Drawing heavily on the writings of Professor D.S. Kothari and Mahatma Gandhi, this book analyses the concept of truth in science and religion. Providing a brief biographical sketch of prof. Kothari, it contains some papers on the subjects, including one by Prof. Kothari, which explains the principle of complementarity at a very elementary level in terms of a conversation between a classical physicist and a modern physicist. The concept of identity and ...
This series, running into five volumes, reflects the general attitude of people towards non-violence as a means to resolve various kinds of conflicts and to bring about peace and harmony in the world. Prepared under the joint auspices of Delhi Society of Non-violence, New Delhi, and International Centre of Gandhian studies and Research, Gandhi Darshan, New Delhi, it addresses a host of issues pertaining to Gandhian world Order, non-violence in action, ...
Focusing on NGOs that work in the areas of rural development, women and children, the book sheds light on the contributions of the sector in the spheres of social welfare, empowerment, service and rural development. In addition, the problems and difficulties experienced by NGOs are analyzed and explained. The book, besides tracing the rise of NGOs in India and their transformation over the years, also reveals the importance of NGOs in India’s development after ...
Gandhian concept of interdependence is highly conducive for the global peace, moral and economic progress of India and the rest of the world. In the context, role of Professional social work has been delimited by using the theory centripetal against that of centrifugal to mobilise, organise people to get their participation and raise their voice against the suffering and oppression for thousands of years. The case studies of Salt Satyagraha and networking will be ...