TY - BOOK AU - Kolge,Nishikant TI - Gandhi against caste SN - 9780199091089 (ebook) : AV - HT720 U1 - 305.512209540904 23 PY - 2018/// CY - New Delhi PB - Oxford University Press KW - Gandhi, KW - Caste KW - India KW - History KW - 20th century N1 - This edition previously issued in print: 2018; Includes bibliographical references and index; Specialized N2 - This work examines Gandhi's understanding of the caste and varna, and his evolving strategies to abolish it. It divides the entire political career of Gandhi in India into five periods - 1915 to 1920, 1920 to 1927, 1927 to 1932, 1932 to 1945, and 1945 to 1948 - based on the themes that emerge in his writings during those years on issues of untouchability, caste, varna, sanatani Hindu, inter-dining, and inter-caste marriage. It traces the evolution of Gandhi's views, exploring shifts and turns in the context of political and social development of the time UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199474295.001.0001 ER -