Anthony Parel at the Hind Swaraj International Centenary Conference

Anthony Parel (born 1926) is a Canadian historian, author and academic. He has authored and edited a number of books, on subjects including

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, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi and

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n history. More broadly, he is interested in exploring the relationship between the political, the economic, and the ethical and the spiritual.

Biography

Parel was born in present-day

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in 1926. He was educated in India and

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and received his doctorate in government from

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in 1963. He taught political science at the

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from 1966 until retirement in 1994. Parel now occupies the post of Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Calgary. He is a naturalized Canadian citizen.

Partial bibliography

Parel's works include: * ''The Machiavellian Cosmos'' (1982) * ''Gandhi's Philosophy and the Quest for Harmony'' (2007) * ''Gandhi: Hind Swaraj and Other Writings'' Centenary Edition (2009) (editor) * ''The Cambridge Companion to Gandhi'' (2011). Co-editor with Judith M. Brown.

References

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