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If we look back at world history in the past five hundred years, it
is evident that Indian ideas, peoples, and goods helped drive world
connections. From the quest to discover the Indies that drove
Iberian rulers to fund costly expeditions that ultimately connected
the Old World with the Americas to Gandhi’s creed of non-violence
that created transnational resistance movements, India has been
crucial to world history. In what ways have the movement of goods,
people, and ideas from India served to connect the world?
Conversely, how has India’s global history shaped the many
boundaries and inequalities that have divided the world
despite—and at times because of—the transnational connections
often lumped together under the aegis of globalization? Through its
emphasis on both linkages and boundaries, India in the World
examines the range of connections between India and the world in a
truly global perspective.
Do democratic states bring about greater social and economic
equality among their citizens? Modern India embraced universal
suffrage from the moment it was free of British imperial rule in
1947-a historical rarity in the West-and yet Indian citizens are
far from realizing equality today. The United States, the first
British colony to gain independence, continues to struggle with
intolerance and the consequences of growing inequality in the
twenty-first century. From Boston Brahmins to Mohandas Gandhi, from
Hollywood to Bollywood, Nico Slate traces the continuous
transmission of democratic ideas between two former colonies of the
British Empire. Gandhian nonviolence lay at the heart of the
American civil rights movement. Key Indian freedom fighters
sharpened their political thought while studying and working in the
United States. And the Indian American community fought its own
battle for civil rights. Spanning three centuries and two
continents, Lord Cornwallis Is Dead offers a new look at the
struggle for freedom that linked two nations. While the United
States remains the world's most powerful democracy, India-the
world's most populous democracy-is growing in wealth and influence.
Together, the United States and India will play a predominant role
in shaping the future of democracy.
Mahatma Gandhi redefined nutrition as fundamental to building a
more just world. What he chose to eat was intimately tied to his
beliefs, and his key values of nonviolence, religious tolerance,
and rural sustainability developed in tandem with his dietary
experiments. His repudiation of sugar, chocolate, and salt
expressed his active resistance to economies based on slavery,
indentured labor, and imperialism. Gandhi’s Search for the
Perfect Diet sheds new light on important periods in Gandhi’s
life as they relate to his developing food ethic: his student years
in London, his politicization as a young lawyer in South Africa,
the 1930 Salt March challenging British colonialism, and his
fasting as a means of self-purification and social protest during
India’s struggle for independence. What became the pillars of
Gandhi’s diet—vegetarianism, limiting salt and sweets, avoiding
processed food, and fasting—anticipated many twenty-first-century
food debates and the need to build healthier and more equitable
global food systems.
Brothers is Nico Slate’s poignant memoir about Peter Slate,
aka XL, a Black rapper and screenwriter whose life was
tragically cut short. Nico and Peter shared the same White American
mother but had different fathers. Nico’s was White; Peter’s was
Black. Growing up in California in the 1980s and 1990s, Nico often
forgot about their racial differences until one night in March 1994
when Peter was attacked by a White man in a nightclub in Los
Angeles. Nico began writing Brothers with the hope that
investigating the attack would bring him closer to Peter. He could
not understand that night, however, without grappling with the many
ways race had long separated him from his brother. This is a memoir
of loss—the loss of a life and the loss at the heart of our
racial divide—but it is also a memoir of love. The love
between Nico and Peter permeates every page
of Brothers. This achingly beautiful memoir presents
one family’s resilience on the fault lines of race in
contemporary America.
A hidden history connects India and the United States, the world's
two largest democracies. From the late nineteenth century through
the 1960s, activists worked across borders of race and nation to
push both countries toward achieving their democratic principles.
At the heart of this shared struggle, African Americans and Indians
forged bonds ranging from statements of sympathy to coordinated
acts of solidarity. Within these two groups, certain activists
developed a colored cosmopolitanism, a vision of the world that
transcended traditional racial distinctions. These men and women
agitated for the freedom of the "colored world," even while
challenging the meanings of both color and freedom. "Slate
exhaustively charts the liberation movements of the world's two
largest democracies from the 19th century to the 1960s. There's
more to this connection than the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s debt
to Mahatma Gandhi, and Slate tells this fascinating tale better
than anyone ever has." -Tony Norman, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette "Slate
does more than provide a fresh history of the Indian anticolonial
movement and the U.S. civil rights movement; his seminal
contribution is his development of a nuanced conceptual framework
for later historians to apply to studying other transnational
social movements." -K. K. Hill, Choice
Mahatma Gandhi redefined nutrition as fundamental to building a
more just world. What he chose to eat was intimately tied to his
beliefs, and his key values of nonviolence, religious tolerance,
and rural sustainability developed in tandem with his dietary
experiments. His repudiation of sugar, chocolate, and salt
expressed his active resistance to economies based on slavery,
indentured labor, and imperialism. Gandhi's Search for the Perfect
Diet sheds new light on important periods in Gandhi's life as they
relate to his developing food ethic: his student years in London,
his politicization as a young lawyer in South Africa, the 1930 Salt
March challenging British colonialism, and his fasting as a means
of self-purification and social protest during India's struggle for
independence. What became the pillars of Gandhi's
diet-vegetarianism, limiting salt and sweets, avoiding processed
food, and fasting-anticipated many twenty-first-century food
debates and the need to build healthier and more equitable global
food systems.
Mahatma Gandhi redefined nutrition as a holistic approach to
building a more just world. What he chose to eat was intimately
tied to his beliefs. His key values of nonviolence, religious
tolerance, and rural sustainability developed in coordination with
his dietary experiments. His repudiation of sugar, chocolate, and
salt expressed his opposition to economies based on slavery,
indentured labor, and imperialism. Gandhi's Search for the Perfect
Diet sheds new light on important periods in Gandhi's life as they
relate to his developing food ethic: his student years in London,
his politicization as a young lawyer in South Africa, the 1930 Salt
March challenging British colonialism, and his fasting as a means
of self-purifi cation and social protest during India's struggle
for independence. What became the pillars of Gandhi's diet -
vegetarianism, limiting salt and sweets, avoiding processed food,
and fasting - anticipated many of the debates in twenty-fi
rst-century food studies, and presaged the necessity of building
healthier and more equitable food systems.
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