Dennis Dalton.
DENNIS DALTON
MAHATMA GANDHI - NONVIOLENT POWER IN ACTION (1995)
Mahatma Gandhi (born 1869) was an Indian lawyer, trained at the Inner Temple in London, who led the successful non-violent campaign for Indian independence. After qualifying as a lawyer he moved to South Africa where he raised a family and began to embark on non-violent resistance. He returned to India in 1915, aged 45. In 1921 he assumed leadership of the Indian National Congress and embarked on his long campaign for Indian self-rule. The campaign included resistance to the salt tax which the British imposed and led to his being imprisoned several times. His vision of self-rule was achieved in 1947, but his vision of religious pluralism was not to be as, fearing civil war, the departing British partitioned India into the predominantly Muslim Pakistan and the predominantly Hindu India.
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Dennis Dalton (born 1938) was a Professor of Political Science at Barnard College, Columbia University, from 1969 to 2008. He took an MA in Politicial Science at the University of Chicago and his PhD from the Univrsity of London. He started his teaching career at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London University. His work has focused particularly on Mahatma Gandhi and the concept and practice of civil disobedience. In the video above he compares the career of Gandhi with that of Martin Luther King.
