Intro
Contents
About the Authors
1 Introduction
2 Satya and Ahimsa: Learning Non-violence from the Gita
2.1 Gandhian Ahimsa: Philosophical Resources
2.1.1 Gandhian Ahimsa and Tolstoy
2.2 Gandhian Ahimsa and the Bhagavad Gita
2.2.1 The Gita: Nationalist Politics and Gandhi
2.2.2 Making for the Exception: Tilak, Gandhi, and Violence in the Gita
2.2.3 Gandhi: Meeting the Thief with Ahimsa/love
2.3 The Gita and Ahimsa: Desireless-Ness and Samata/Equality
2.3.1 Ahimsa and the Sthitaprajna/Perfect Person of the Gita

2.3.2 Nishkamakarmayoga/Non-attachment to the Ends of Action, Present-Centred Action and Gandhian Ahimsa
2.3.3 Samata/Equality in the Gita and Ahimsa as the Unilateral Obligation of Owning Kinship with the 'other'
2.4 The Practice of Ahimsa: The Means to Arrive at the Truth/God of Religion
2.4.1 The Practice of the Equability of the Gita: Ahimsa and Satya/Truth
Notes
References
3 Ethics: Western and Indian
Notes
References
4 For Love of Country: Gandhi and Tagore
4.1 Tagore's not so Narrow Causeway: Coming Close to Herder

4.1.1 Tagore and Herder on Populism Pluralism and Expressionism: A Critique of the Universalism of the Enlightenment
4.1.2 Tagore and Herder: Enlightenment Modernity and the Nation of the West
4.2 Kant's Moral Philosophy and the Modern Nation-State
4.3 Gandhi and Tagore: of Love of the Country and the Indian Nesan
4.3.1 Tagore and the Alternative Nesan5 of the East
4.3.2 Tagore and Gandhi: A Decentralized Nesan/Praja
4.3.3 In Conclusion: Metaphysics and Politics
The Ishopanishad
Notes
References
5 Body, Action, Authority, Ethics, and Politics
Notes
References

6 Gandhi's 'True' Politics and the Integrity of the Good Life: Satya, Swaraj, Tapasya, and Satyagraha
6.1 Gandhi's Integrity
the Practice of a Politics Integrated with Morality, a Moral Religion and the Natural World
6.1.1 Gandhi: Real Politics and Power Politics
6.1.2 Continuity with the Past and with the Non-human World: Absolute Equality, Swabhawa, Swaraj, and Tapasya
6.1.3 The Inseparability of Means and End: Tapas as the Means of Real Politics
6.2 Gandhi's Moral Politics: The Purva Paksa on the Restraint of the Self and Force

6.2.1 Reading Skaria's Critique of Gandhi: of Truth/God and Gandhi's Moral Politics
6.2.2 Reading Skaria's Critique of Gandhi: of Enacting Equality as Tapasya/Ability to Suffer
6.3 Debating Skaria
6.3.1 Debating Skaria: on Gandhi's Truth or God
6.3.2 Debating Skaria
Coercion, Satyagraha, Swaraj, and Gandhi's Groundless Faith
6.3.3 In Conclusion: Gandhi's Integrity
Notes
References
7 Gandhi's Religion
7.1 Privacy and Spirituality
7.2 Truth and God
7.3 The heart of a religion
7.4 Conversion
7.5 Fellowship of Religions
Notes
References