Marx Gandhi And Modernity

Download or read book Marx, Gandhi and Modernity written by Akeel Bilgrami and published by Tulika Books. This book was released on 2015-09-02 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a tribute to Javeed Alam and his exemplary life, some of his close friends and admirers have come together in this volume with reflections on the range of themes that he pursued in his work with such intelligence and relish for some four decades: the nature of capitalism and the various angles of a Marxist response to it, the nature of secularism and liberalism and the forms of modernity which they usher in, and Gandhi’s political ideas in the context of Indian society and India’s own unfolding modernity.