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110 BOOK REVIEWS M. L. Handa, Manifesto for a peaceful World Order: A Gandhian Perspective, Gandhi Bhavan, University of Delhi, pp. xv + 159. 1982. $12. Essentially this is a brilliant and challenging study of the prospects for world order in the face of escalating East-West tensions and deepening poverty in the Third World. It begins with an incisive critique of the two dominant modes of thought in the Western world, the bourgeois and the Marxist, and then sketches out a third way, the Gandhian approach rooted in non violence, love and the search for Truth. The author, Madam Handa, shows an unusual capacity to illuminate the core of the Marxist and bourgeois modes of reasoning in a pithy and convincing manner. Additionally he insists they both believe implicitly in industrial technology as the road to progress and so approach many basic issues from a similar standpoint. He goes further, asserting that "how industrialism works in different garbs, either capitalist or socialist, and generates violent economies is the real issue to understanding our violent world order today, and not whether capitalism is better than socialism or socialism better than capitalism" (p. 78). Handa's analysis sees the nation state
Journal of Asian and African Studies (in 2002 continued as African and Asian Studies) – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 1984
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