Articles by C. Douglas Lummis

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THE SMALLEST ARMY IMAGINABLE: GANDHI’S CONSTITUTIONAL PROPOSAL FOR INDIA AND JAPAN’S PEACE CONSTITUTION (PART 1)
C. Douglas Lummis – Japan Focus, The Asia-Pacific Journal, 21 Jan 2010

An analysis of Gandhi’s thought on nonviolence and its relevance.Prologue In 1931, on his way to the London Round Table Conference, Mahatma Gandhi was asked by a Reuters correspondent what his program was. He responded by writing out a brief, vivid sketch of "the India of my dreams". Such an India, he said, would be […]

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THE SMALLEST ARMY IMAGINABLE: GANDHI’S CONSTITUTIONAL PROPOSAL FOR INDIA AND JAPAN’S PEACE CONSTITUTION (PART 2)
C. Douglas Lummis – Japan Focus, The Asia-Pacific Journal, 21 Jan 2010

Gandhi and the Art of the Possible I wrote above that it is strange that while plans for ideal polities such as those of More, Morris, and others are well known and still in print in many editions, Gandhi’s proposal is out of print and virtually unknown outside of India. There are many possible reasons […]

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