GANDHI INTERNATIONAL

INSTITUTE OF GANDHIAN STUDIES

The Institute of Gandhian Studies (Gandhi Vichar Parishad) is an educational and public charitable institution that has been set-up as one of the commemorative projects of the Jamnalal Bajaj Centenary Year. It was established at Wardha in October 7, 1987. The object of the Institute is to promote, organize, sponsor, undertake the study of the life and thought of Mahatma Gandhi as well as the predecessors of Gandhi and contemporary thinkers and social revolutionaries who have drawn inspiration from Gandhi, or arrived at similar views as a result of their own experience and reflections, as also, to undertake comparative studies of the philosophy and methodology of Gandhiji and other thinkers and social revolutionaries. It offers courses of study of different durations oriented towards the academic community including the Departments of Gandhian Studies in universities, thinkers, religious groups, activists, trade unionists, panchayat leaders, workers among unorganized labour, workers of voluntary/grass root organisations, women, youth, students and similar other groups. The Institute is also the venue of district level Renewable Energy Education Park.

INSTITUTE OF GANDHIAN STUDIES

Gopuri, Wardha – 442 001, Maharashtra, INDIA

Tel: 0091 (0)7152-243585, 240315

Fax : 0091(0) 7152-240315

E-mail : mahatma_wda@sancharnet.in

Website: www.gvpwardha.in

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GANDHI INTERNATIONAL

GANDHI INTERNATIONAL

Gandhi International is a French N.G.O. which brings together motivated individuals and various non-violent organisations working for social change in the cause of justice and peace. The main partners of this organisation are: Lanza del Vasto’s Communities of the Ark, Université Terre du ciel, Pax Christi International, the association Shanti, Church and Peace, Femmes Internationales – Murs Brisés, Génération Non-violente, the Colibri network of Pierre Rabhi. It is also supported by the Catholic Committee against Hunger and for Development (C.C.F.D.) and Survival International. Its aim is to promote renewed interest in Gandhian thought and action throughout Europe and other continents, by organising cultural events, conferences and symbolic acts. Gandhi International was awarded the 2008 Maja Koene prize from the CESCI Foundation (India & Switzerland) for the dissemination of peace and nonviolence.

GANDHI INTERNATIONAL

37 rue de la Concorde – 11000, Carcassonne, FRANCE

Tel. : +33 (0)4 68 71 18 33

Email :gandhiji2012@gmail.com

Website :www.gandhi2012.org

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PREFACE

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