Gandhi and the Unspeakable: His Final Experiment with Truth

by James W. Douglass

Overview

James Douglass, following the theme of his previous study of the JFK assassination, shows how those who conspired to kill Gandhi hoped to destroy a compelling vision of peace, nonviolence, and reconciliation. In tracing the story of Gandhi's early "experiments with truth" in South Africa, Douglass shows how Gandhi had early on confronted and over-come the fear of death. And, as with the case of JFK's death, he shows why this story matters today: what we can learn from Gandhi's truth and its opposition to the powers of his time.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781626980334
Publisher:	Orbis Books
Publication date:	08/01/2013
Pages:	176
Product dimensions:	5.22(w) x 8.02(h) x 0.38(d)

Table of Contents

Introduction ix

Seeds of Life and Death 1

Gandhi and His Assassins 27

Gandhi, Godse, and the Cross 103

Acknowledgments 115

Notes 119

Index 151

Editorial Reviews

Fifteen years ago, Douglass began investigating the assassinations of John and Robert Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr., and Malcolm X. His award-winning JFK and the Unspeakable (2008) is now recommended reading for those seriously investigating political assassinations. While researching Kennedy, Douglass learned from Arun Gandhi, grandson of the Indian liberation leader, that his grandfather had been killed by a conspiracy involving powerful nationalist forces within the Indian government—not a lone gunman. This led to Douglass’s rigorously investigating thousands of documents on Gandhi’s 1948 murder. He now provides readers with a slim, elegant volume containing explosive insight into who conspired to assassinate the father of modern nonviolence and why. “Gandhi’s murder, followed by the repression of its truth,” writes Douglass, “forms a paradigm of killing and deceitful cover-up that U.S. citizens would soon have to confront in our own government.” No other contemporary writer is exposing the mechanics of assassination as methodically and bravely as Douglass. But because he is a Catholic independent scholar and activist most well-known for his writings on nonviolence and suffering, this book is more than a fresh look at historical circumstances: it’s spiritual spelunking into the depravity of unchecked political power. (Feb.)

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