{"product_id":"unconditional-equality-gandhis-religion-of-resistance-9788178245102","title":"Unconditional Equality: Gandhi's Religion of Resistance","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Ajay Skaria\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eUnconditional Equality\u003c\/em\u003e examines Mahatma Gandhi’s critique of liberal ideas of freedom and equality, and his own practice of a freedom and equality organized around religion.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSometimes working against the grain of Gandhi’s explicit formulations\u003cem\u003e,\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eUnconditional Equality\u003c\/em\u003e reconceives satyagraha (passive resistance) as a politics that strives for the absolute equality of all beings. Liberal traditions usually affirm an abstract equality. But for Gandhi such equality is an “equality of [the] sword”—because it excludes those presumed to lack reason (such as animals or the colonized), but also because those included lose the power to love.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGandhi professes instead a politics organized around dharma, or religion. For him, there can be “no politics without religion.” This involves self-surrender, a freely offered surrender of autonomy and everyday sovereignty. For Gandhi, the “religion that stays in all religions” is satyagraha.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAjay Skaria argues that, conceptually, satyagraha insists on equality without exception of all humans, animals, and things.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45616479502487,"sku":"9788178245102","price":427.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9788178245102.webp?v=1769294903","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/unconditional-equality-gandhis-religion-of-resistance-9788178245102","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}