Moral Empire and the Global Meaning of Gandhi's Anti-imperialism

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ID6403265
AutoresNazmul S Sultan (0000-0002-7850-9400, University of British Columbia, autor correspondente)
Ano2022
Volume84
Fascículo4
Páginas545-569
Data de publicação2022-01-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoThe Review of Politics (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0034-6705 • E-ISSN: 1748-6858
EditoraCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0034670522000560
OpenAlexW4294233748
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas1
Referências citadas19

Gandhi famously shook the foundations of the British Empire and sparked the beginning of a new anti-imperial era. But his critique of empire does not quite fit the familiar script of twentieth-century anti-imperialism. Gandhi's positions ranged from sincere expressions of imperial loyalty to a condemnation of English civilization while endorsing its moral empire, to an unqualified disavowal of the Britsh Empire without necessarily claiming independence. Reconstructing the long arc of his (anti-)imperial thought, this article shows that the idea of empire operated in the early Gandhi's thought in two ways: as the authorizing source of the rights of Indians and as the addressee of political claims. This genealogy helps explain the complex trajectory of his two separate breaks from empire. The article ultimately suggests that the key to understanding the global resonance of Gandhi's ideas lies in his transformation of the imperial adversary into a universal addressee of action

Ancient history · Civilization · Empire · Epistemology · Meaning (existential · Political science · Politics · Sociology · History · Indian Economic and Social Development · Indian History and Philosophy · Law · Philosophy · Politics and Conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Middle East · Religious studies