December
Parekh, Bhikhu. Gandhi: A Very Short Introduction.
Oxford University Press, 2001.
Janurary
Gandhi, M.K. Hind Swaraj and Other Writings. Ed. Anthony Parel. Cambridge University Press, 1997.
-----. An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth.
February
Payne, Robert. The Life and Death of Mahatma Gandhi. 1969. New York : Konecky Konecky, 1998.
Nandy, Ashis. The Intimate Enemy: Loss and Recovery of Self Under Colonialism. 1983. In Exiled at Home. Oxford India Omnibus Edition. New Delhi: Oxford UP, 2005. (a second reading from this work is listed for April)
March
Nehru, Jawaralal. Discovery of India . 1946. New York : Penguin, 2004. (Selected Chapters TBA)
Shiva, Vandana. India Divided: Diversity and Democracy Under Attack. New York : Seven Stories Press, 2005.
April
Kapur, Sudarshan. Raising Up a Prophet: The African-American Encounter with Gandhi. Boston : Beacon Press, 1992.
Rudolph, Lloyd I. and Susanne Hoeber. Postmodern Gandhi and Other Essays: Gandhi in the World and at Home. Chicago : U of Chicago P, 2006. (Selected Chapters TBA)
May
Raghuramaraju, A., ed. Debating Gandhi: A Reader. New Delhi: Oxford UP, 2006. (available at http://www.easternbookcorporation.com/)
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Basham, A.L., "Traditional Influences on the Thought of Mahatma Gandhi," 19-45.
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Guha, Ramchandra,"Mahatma Gandhi and the Environmental Movement," 223-239.
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Kishwar, Madhu,"Gandhi on Women," 269-324.
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Nagaraj, D.R., "Self-Purification versus Self-Respect: On the Roots of the Dalit Movement," 359-389.
June
Narayan, R.K. Waiting for the Mahatma. Chicago : U of Chicago P, 1981.
Also Recommended
Gandhi, M.K. The Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi . Government of India http://www.gandhiserve.org/cwmg/cwmg.html (Selections TBA)
Biographies
Ashe, Geoffrey. Gandhi. 1969. New York : Stein and Day, 1980.
Fisher, Louis. Gandhi: His Life and Message for the World. 1951. New York HarperCollins, 1997.
Gandhi, Rajmohan. Gandhi: The Man, His People, and the Empire. Berkeley : U of California P, 2008. (Forthcoming)
Works about Gandhi and India
Lal, Vinay. "Gandhi, The Civilizational Crucible and the Future of Dissent." Futures. 31 (1999). Website Manas: http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/southasia/History/Gandhi/ gandhi_civil_crucible.pdf
-----."Too Deep for Deep Ecology: Gandhi and the Ecological Vision of Life", in Hinduism and Ecology : The Intersection of Earth, Sky, and Water , eds. Christopher Key Chapple and Mary Evelyn Tucker ( Cambridge , Mass. : Harvard UP for Center for the Study of World Religions, Harvard University , 2000), pp. 183-212.
Nandy, Ashis. "Final Encounter: The Politics of the Assassination of Gandhi." In At the Edge of Psychology. 1983. In Exiled at Home. Oxford India Omnibus Edition. New Delhi: Oxford UP, 2005.