Gandhi’s Long Shadow

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Gandhi’s ideas did not go unchallenged, even by those closest to his moment in history. This talk draws on the book Arguments with Gandhi, examining the ideological disagreements he had with Marxists, religious fundamentalists, economic modernizers, and anti-caste radicals. What can a century of disagreement teach us about how to live now?

Using Gandhi’s legacy as a lens, the talk offers a moral and political history of the modern world, one built as much from argument as from agreement. Gandhi’s debates with his contemporaries, and later generations’ arguments with him,…