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"What student is he who will continue to study at such a time?" Gandhi asked a crowd on March 17, two weeks before the march passed by Narotam's hometown. "Today I ask them to leave schools and come out on the battlefield and become mendicants for the sake of the country ... The final battle has to be waged."
Minal Hajratwala • Leaving India: My Family's Journey from Five Villages to Five Continents
Modernization theory has had a normative, Eurocentric bias, neglecting the manifold role of capital in the peripheries which have also been an integral part of capitalist modernity.
Prasenjit Duara • The Crisis of Global Modernity: Asian Traditions and a Sustainable Future (Asian Connections)
On October 2, 2000, the 131st anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi's birth, Gandhi's family gave this Canadian farmer the prestigious Mahatma Gandhi award. An enormous crowd of 300,000 Indian farmers gathered to listen to and support Percy Schmeiser.
Dean Ornish M.D. • The Food Revolution
Tagore invented secular festivals for the celebration of the different seasons in the region and brought together the urban and the rural during harvest festivals. He started cooperative movements among the tribal peoples and the rural folk, seeking to educate them in health, agriculture, savings and other modern ways of survival, while encouraging
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