![]() ![]() Finally, in my view, Gandhi should be seen not just as an important historical figure but very much as a man for our times also. ![]() It also focuses on Gandhi's critique of Hindu tradition as a powerful buttress of profound social inequality particularly relating to caste and gender his response to violence in the name of religion and community and finally his underlying belief that true religion was the individual's search for the divine and that all religious traditions by contrast have very partial visions of truth. Gandhi, particularly the way he addressed the nature of India and its problems as British imperial rule ended. In this context, I examine the life and thought of M.K. Dalrymple describes the English East India Company's seizure of India as leading to Anarchy, when his history in fact shows clearly that the EIC found a crumbling Moghul empire in total anarchy, and, having seized the corpus piece by piece, restored law and order, laying the groundwork for responsible rule by the British government, and leaving. organizations and violence and the failure of many 'religions' to meet the needs of serious seekers after meaning and truth. Following my earlier collaboration with Martin Prozesky, my essay links with three major concerns in Prozesky's work as he has engaged with a radical critique of religious traditions and structures in the South African context of the end of apartheid: the involvement of dominant religious traditions in sustaining power structures and inequality the nexus between religious beliefs and. Scenes from an opium factory in northern India Historian William Dalrymple, author of The Anarchy, a new book on the East India Company, says it 'ferried opium to China, fighting the opium. ![]()
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