Gandhi's Search for the Perfect Diet: Eating with the World in Mind (Global South AsiaGlobal South AsiaGlobal South AsiaGlobal South AsiaGlobal South AsiaGandhi's Search for the Perfect Diet) - Softcover

Slate, Nico

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0295744960 ISBN 13: 9780295744964

Verlag: University of Washington Press, 2020

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Mahatma Gandhi redefined nutrition as fundamental to building a more just world. What he chose to eat was intimately tied to his beliefs, and his key values of nonviolence, religious tolerance, and rural sustainability developed in tandem with his dietary experiments. His repudiation of sugar, chocolate, and salt expressed his active resistance to economies based on slavery, indentured labor, and imperialism.

Gandhi's Search for the Perfect Diet sheds new light on important periods in Gandhi's life as they relate to his developing food ethic: his student years in London, his politicization as a young lawyer in South Africa, the 1930 Salt March challenging British colonialism, and his fasting as a means of self-purification and social protest during India's struggle for independence. What became the pillars of Gandhi's diet―vegetarianism, limiting salt and sweets, avoiding processed food, and fasting―anticipated many twenty-first-century food debates and the need to build healthier and more equitable global food systems.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Nico Slate is associate professor of history at Carnegie Mellon University. He is the author of Colored Cosmopolitanism: The Shared Struggle for Freedom in the United States and India (Harvard University Press, 2012); and editor of The Prism of Race: W.E.B. Du Bois, Langston Hughes, Paul Robeson and the Colored World of Cedric Dover (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014) and Black Power beyond Borders: The Global Dimensions of the Black Power Movement (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012).

Anand A. Yang is professor of international studies and history at the University of Washington. He is coeditor of Interactions: Transregional Perspectives on World History (Hawai'i, 2005), coeditor of Thirteen Months in China: A Subaltern Indian and the Colonial World (Oxford, 2017), and author of Empire of Convicts: Indian Penal Labor in Colonial Southeast Asia (California, 2021).

Kalyanakrishnan "Shivi" Sivaramakrishnan is Dinakar Singh Professor of India and South Asia Studies, professor of anthropology, professor of forestry and environmental studies, and codirector of the Program in Agrarian Studies, Yale University.

Padma Kaimal is Batza Professor of Art and Art History at Colgate University. She is the author of Scattered Goddesses: Travels with the Yoginis (Association for Asian Studies, 2013) and Opening Kailasanatha: The Temple in Kanchipuram Revealed in Time and Space (Washington, 2021).

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: University of Washington Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2020
• ISBN 10: 0295744960
• ISBN 13: 9780295744964
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 277
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar