About the Book: Gandhi & The End Of Nonviolence
Gandhi was 20th century’s most acclaimed political thinker-practioner of
nonviolence. His method of nonviolence, however, was under trial during the
ferocity of Partition. Why was it so? Gandhi: The End of Nonviolence explores
this crisis in depth.
Putting Gandhi center stage in significant political events ranging from the
Khilafat Movement (1919-1922) to Partition (1946-1947), Manash Firaq
Bhattacharjee critically engages with some of the key figures who had a stake on
the Hindu-Muslim question: Maulana Mohamad Ali, Muhammad Iqbal, the Arya
Samajists, B.R. Ambedkar, Swami Vivekananda, Sri Aurobindo and Vinayak Damodar
Savarkar.
The tragic repercussions of Jinnah’s declaration of ‘Direct Action Day’