| Description |
1 videodisc (DVD) (ca. 52 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in |
| Series |
Compass |
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Compass (Television program)
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| Contents |
Copyright notice: Commonwealth of Australia. Copyright Regulations. 1969. Warning |
| Summary |
Examines the controversy which surrounded Mahatma Gandhi's life and activism, particularly his personal commitment to celibacy. Central to his creed of passive resistance was his belief that male sexuality is the cause of violence in the world. Gandhi sought to overcome such evils through celibacy and spiritual purity, so that his body could be a political vehicle of non-violence. It became the key to his campaigns against injustice and his struggle to bring about a peaceful independence to India. But, in his 70's he shocked even his closest supporters by sleeping naked with his 17-year-old grand niece to test his celibacy. Testing his celibacy was vital, if Gandhi was to neutralise his sexuality and become 'God's eunuch' as he put it. In his final years, Ghandi's dreams of a peaceful transition to independence were shattered, when widespread communal violence between Hindus and Moslems led to partition in 1947. Ghandi himself was assassinated the following year. His experiments had failed to transform the country he loved, but his spiritual purity and his message of non-violence endured as his legacy to India and the world |
| Notes |
Off-air recording of the ABC-TV program broadcast 25/03/07. Copied under Part 5A of the Copyright Act 1968 |
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Off-air recording of ABC1 broadcast August 11, 2008. Copied under Part 5a of the Copyright Act. (VDU copy) |
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'Juniper [for Channel] 4.' |
| Credits |
Editor, Elliot McCaffrey |
| Performer |
Presenter, Geraldine Doogue ; narrator, Shyama Perera |
| Notes |
Rated: PG |
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First released [London] : Channel Four Television Co., c2007 |
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DVD ; PAL ; Region 0 |
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Available for Deakin University staff and students only |
| Subject |
Gandhi Mahatma, 1869-1948
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Diet -- India
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Nationalism -- India
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Nonviolence
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Passive resistance
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Political ethics
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Sexual ethics -- India
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Statesmen -- India -- Biography
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Medicine, Ayurvedic
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| SUBJECT |
India -- Politics and government -- 20th century
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| Author |
Dobson, Elizabeth
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McCaffrey, Elliot
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Doogue, Geraldine, 1947-
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Perera, Shyama
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Channel Four (Great Britain)
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ABC-TV (Australia)
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