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Squaring the Circle - Mahatma Gandhi and the Jewish National Home (Hardcover)
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Squaring the Circle - Mahatma Gandhi and the Jewish National Home (Hardcover)
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The centrality of the book is Gandhi's disposition and orientation
towards the idea of Jewish homeland. When it comes to Jews, Jewish
nationalism and their aspirations in Palestine, even Mahatma Gandhi
was not infallible. His abiding empathy for the Jews was negated by
his limited understanding of Judaism and Jewish history. His
perception of the Palestine issue and his support for the Arabs was
rooted in the domestic Indian context. The conventional
understanding that Gandhi was 'consistently' opposed to Zionism and
the Jewish aspirations for a national home in Palestine does not
correspond with his later remarks. While demanding Jewish
non-violence both against Hitler and in Palestine, Mahatma was
prepared to understand, the 'excesses' of the Arabs who were facing
'overwhelming odds.' His position on the domestic situation largely
influenced his stand viz-a-viz Palestine and hence his demand for
Jews to abandon their collaboration with imperialism and follow the
path of negotiation should be read within the Indian context. So
long as India pursued a recognition-without-relations policy toward
Israel, one could rest on Gandhi's shoulders and adopt a
self-righteous attitude. However, can one rely on the Gandhian
paradigm to explain India's new-found bonhomie toward Israel
without sounding selective, hypocritical or both? The primary focus
of this book is the explication of political constraints and
oversensitivity towards the religious minority for political gains,
which shaped Gandhi's notion about the Jewish homeland. The author
has conducted an empirical survey of the political, religious and
strategic constraints behind Gandhi's idea of the Jewish homeland
that in common parlance is seen as an ardent disapproval of Zionism
by Gandhi. Please note: This title is co-published with KW
Publishers, New Delhi. Taylor & Francis does not sell or
distribute the Hardback in India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan,
Bangladesh and Sri Lanka
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