Gandhian nonviolent struggle and untouchability in South India : the 1924-25 Vykom Satyagraha and the mechanisms of change

Through an analysis of the twenty-month long Gandhian Satyagraha (non-violent resistance) against untouchability at Vykom, Kerala, in the mid-1920s, this book explores new approaches to the understanding and practice of non-violence as a means of civil protest.