Gandhi and the Power of Nonviolent Struggle | Dr. Douglas McGetchin | TEDxFAUJupiter

An overview of Gandhi's life and his nonviolent actions and methods are reviewed. In addition, other methods of nonviolent action over the course of history and across many different cultures are explored. Further resources about nonviolence are shared.
Dr. Douglass McGetchin is the Associate Professor of History at Florida Atlantic University. He specializes in the history of connections between Modern Germany and South Asia. He lived in Germany (Berlin, 1999-2000), India (Kolkata [Calcutta], 2013-2014), and is the author of Indology, Indomania, Orientalism: Ancient India’s Rebirth in Modern Germany (2009) and a co-editor of Transcultural Encounters between Germany and India in the 19th and 20th Centuries: Kindred Spirits (2014). He also received a Fulbright-Nehru Senior Scholar Research Award in 2013-2014 to conduct research in Kolkata India on his current book The Boycott or the Bullet: Debates over Nonviolence in Indo-Western Anti-Imperialist Struggles, 1893-1964 about the interconnections between three struggles for social justice: European anti-imperial and labor politics, The Indian Independence movement, and the pan-African movement that included the Civil Rights struggle in the United States.
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