Snehal Shingavi

The Mahatma Misunderstood

The Politics and Forms of Literary Nationalism in India

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Produktbeschreibung

"The Mahatma Misunderstood" is a study of the fiction about Gandhi produced in his lifetime, and explains why novelists both vehemently critiqued and lovingly collaborated with the Mahatma simultaneously.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Anthem Press
• Seitenzahl: 244
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 554g
• ISBN-13: 9780857285119
• ISBN-10: 0857285114
• Artikelnr.: 35899478

Autorenporträt

Snehal Shingavi

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1: The Mahatma as Proof: The Nationalist Origins of the Historiography of Indian Writing in English
Chapter 2: “The Mahatma didn’t say so, but …”: Mulk Raj Anand’s “Untouchable” and the Sympathies of Middle-Class Nationalists
Chapter 3: “The Mahatma may be all wrong about politics, but …”: Raja Rao’s “Kanthapura” and the Religious Imagination of the Indian, Secular, Nationalist Middle Class
Chapter 4: The Missing Mahatma: Ahmed Ali and the Aesthetics of Muslim Anticolonialism
Chapter 5: The Grammar of the Gandhians: Jayaprakash Narayan and the Figure of Gandhi
Chapter 6: The Mahatma Misunderstood: The Arrested Development of the Nationalist Dialectic
Conclusion: Dangerous Solidarities
Notes
Bibliography
Index