Untitled

• Spiritual vs Politician
• Collected works of Mahatma Gandhi - 100 Volumes
• 4 Newspapers
• Autobiography 1000+ books
• Non Violence
  • Not only abstain from violence
• Secrecy a violence
  • Visited prostitute then ran away
  • Post WW2 Orwell - "Left behind clean smell & magnified own sins"
• Abstaining from things
  • Addiction
  • Celibacy in age of 37 father of 4 before 20
• Political intellectual history
  • 1869 - Clerk level + Viceroy + ICS (London exam)
• Why colonized
  • Fundamentally wrong + Improvement (Social reform movements)
  • RRMR is as Martin Luther for Christian protestant with anglicized Indians
  • Aryasamaj - Return to Vedas
• Religion
  • Converter has inadequate knowledge but have freedom to do so
• Western India
  • Cultural & Religion
    • Jainism and Vaishnavism
      • Strict non violence
      • Net on mouth + Sweep
      • Bhakti
    • Ports
      • Porbandar(Kathiwar) Native State (1/3rd India)
      • Cosmopolitan - Open + Diverse
  • Family
    • Mother - Putlibai
      • "Karvachaut" - Disciplined
      • "Fast" - Coercion -> Changed balance of power (Micro + Macro level)
      • Bhakti Devotion - Religious
    • Father
      • Prime Minister - Politics
• Education
  • Porbandar - Rajkot - London (1880s)
• Relationship with west
• South Africa 1893 to 1914
• Grammar
  • Satyagraha
    • satya: "truth", agraha: "insistence"
• What if Hitler as opponent
  • Systematic; attacked at starting @root
• Ahimsa