Unconditional Equality examines Mahatma Gandhi’s critique of liberal ideas of freedom and equality, and his own practice of a freedom and equality organized around religion. Liberal traditions usually affirm an abstract equality. For Gandhi such equality is an “equality of [the] sword”– both because it excludes those presumed to lack reason (such as animals or the colonized), but also because those included lose the power to love. Gandhi professes instead a politics organized around dharma, or religion. For him, the “religion that stays in all religions” is satyagraha (passive resistance). Sometimes working against the grain of Gandhi’s explicit formulations, this book explores how Gandhi conceives religion, and suggests that satyagraha (passive resistance) offers us the resources to think a politics of absolute or unconditional equality.