Satyagraha as a Public Responsibility

The book, Gandhi and the Champaran Satyagraha: Select Readings edited by Suranjan Das, containing five parts accounting for 36 chapters, is a comprehensive compendium in which M K Gandhi’s various roles (as an analyst, catalyst, and participant) in the Champaran Satyagraha (1917) are substantially unearthed. Select readings provide a “thick description” of resolved or unresolved finality in the Champaran Satyagraha. The satyagraha, as a public responsibility, contributed to forming a collective for civil disobedience. This is remarkable for the purposes of beginning to shake the framework of permanent political acquiescence. The diverse readings in this book revisit the past to rekindle the contemporary.

Satyagraha’s Apotheosis