Gandhi in India's Literary and Cultural Imagination
Herausgeber: Zaidi, Nishat; Das Gupta, Indrani
Gandhi in India's Literary and Cultural Imagination
Herausgeber: Zaidi, Nishat; Das Gupta, Indrani
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This book engages with the socio-cultural imaginings of Gandhi in literature, history, visual and popular culture. It explores multiple iterations of his ideas, myths and philosophies, which have inspired the work of filmmakers, playwrights, cartoonists and artists for generations.
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This book engages with the socio-cultural imaginings of Gandhi in literature, history, visual and popular culture. It explores multiple iterations of his ideas, myths and philosophies, which have inspired the work of filmmakers, playwrights, cartoonists and artists for generations.
Produktdetails
- Produktdetails
- Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
- Seitenzahl: 266
- Erscheinungstermin: 5. Juli 2022
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 18mm
- Gewicht: 576g
- ISBN-13: 9780367688875
- ISBN-10: 0367688875
- Artikelnr.: 63047753
- Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
- Seitenzahl: 266
- Erscheinungstermin: 5. Juli 2022
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 18mm
- Gewicht: 576g
- ISBN-13: 9780367688875
- ISBN-10: 0367688875
- Artikelnr.: 63047753
Nishat Zaidi is Professor of English at Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi. A scholar, critic and translator, she is the recipient of several prestigious grants and has conducted collaborative research with the Centre for Indian Studies in Africa, University of Witwatersrand, SA, South Asia Institute, Heidelberg University, Germany, and Michigan State University, USA. Her publications include her monographs, Makers of Indian Literature: Agha Shahid Ali (2014), Ocean as Method: Thinking with the Maritime (with Dilip Menon et al. 2022) and Terrains of Consciousness: Multilogical Perspectives on Globalization (Wurzburg University Press, 2021, co-authored with Zeno Ackermann et al.) and her translations and edited books, Day and Dastan (2018, with Alok Bhalla) and Between Worlds: The Travels of Yusuf Khan Kambalposh (2014, with Mushirul Hasan), among others. Her forthcoming work is Karbala: A Historical Play (translation of Premchand's Play Karbala with a critical introduction and notes) to be published in 2022. Indrani Das Gupta is Assistant Professor in the Department of English, Maharaja Agrasen College, University of Delhi, India. Currently pursuing her PhD from Department of English, Jamia Millia Islamia, India, in the area of Indian Science Fiction. She is engaged in the examination of the interface of science fictionality with the paradigms of nation state and the social variables that constitute the ontological human existence. Her research interests include science fiction studies, crime fiction, children and young adult narratives, utopia/dystopia, sports culture, popular culture and postmodern narratives. She is the non-fiction editor of Mithila Review: An International Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy.
List of Figures
Notes on the Contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Nishat Zaidi
PART I
Gandhi in Sonic and Visual Practices: Enunciations of "Darsan" and Activism
1 Gandhi's Image and Images of Gandhi: The Culture and Politics of Visual
Representation
Vinay Lal
2 Music for the Congregation: Assembling an Aesthetic for Prayer
Lakshmi Subramanian
3 Visualizing Gandhi: The Icon and His People
Ruchika Wason Singh
PART II
Consumptions of Gandhi: Articulations or Disarticulations?
4 Mahatma in Memescape: Making of Gandhi in Participatory Digital Culture
Haris Qadeer
5 Mahatma in Antiphony: Gandhi in Indian Nationalist, Muslim and British
Press Cartoons, 1946-1947
Barnali Saha
6 Exploration of Indian Visual Practices From 1960 to 1970: A Study of
Indian Comic Books on Gandhi
Aparna Pathak
7 Gandhi, the New Divine: Gandhi Ethos in the Malayalam Socials of 1950 and
1960s
M.H. Ilias
8 Framing Gandhi
Nishat Haider
PART III
The Construction of Self: Experimental Site of Praxis and Its Discursive
Limits
9 An Untouchable in Search of an Asketic Gandhi: The Religiosity of
Postcolonial Political
Dhritiman Chakraborty
10 Reformulation of Public-Private Dynamics in Bengali Women's
Autobiographies: Exploring Gandhi and Women's Activism
Bhaswati Chatterjee
11 Examining Gandhi's Disavowals and Re-thinking the "Experiment" in The
Story of My Experiments with Truth
Aishwarya Kumar
12 Gandhian Environmentalism and Its Limits: A Reading of C. K. Janu's
"Autobiographical Testimonio" Mother Forest
P. Rajitha Venugopal
PART IV
Gandhian Presence in Intimate and Public Spheres: Reflections on
Corporeality, Ethicality and Society
13 The Missing/Divergent Inscription of the Gandhian Body: Examining
Corruption in Shrilal Shukla's Raag Darbari
Indrani Das Gupta
14 Gandhi, Abstinence and Political Freedom: Reading Saadat Hasan Manto's "
Swaraj Ke Liye"
Baran Farooqi and Disha Pokhriyal
15 Gandhi and Peasant Organizations in Colonial India: A Reading of
Satinath Bhaduri's Dhorai Charit Manas
Bharti Arora
Index
Notes on the Contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Nishat Zaidi
PART I
Gandhi in Sonic and Visual Practices: Enunciations of "Darsan" and Activism
1 Gandhi's Image and Images of Gandhi: The Culture and Politics of Visual
Representation
Vinay Lal
2 Music for the Congregation: Assembling an Aesthetic for Prayer
Lakshmi Subramanian
3 Visualizing Gandhi: The Icon and His People
Ruchika Wason Singh
PART II
Consumptions of Gandhi: Articulations or Disarticulations?
4 Mahatma in Memescape: Making of Gandhi in Participatory Digital Culture
Haris Qadeer
5 Mahatma in Antiphony: Gandhi in Indian Nationalist, Muslim and British
Press Cartoons, 1946-1947
Barnali Saha
6 Exploration of Indian Visual Practices From 1960 to 1970: A Study of
Indian Comic Books on Gandhi
Aparna Pathak
7 Gandhi, the New Divine: Gandhi Ethos in the Malayalam Socials of 1950 and
1960s
M.H. Ilias
8 Framing Gandhi
Nishat Haider
PART III
The Construction of Self: Experimental Site of Praxis and Its Discursive
Limits
9 An Untouchable in Search of an Asketic Gandhi: The Religiosity of
Postcolonial Political
Dhritiman Chakraborty
10 Reformulation of Public-Private Dynamics in Bengali Women's
Autobiographies: Exploring Gandhi and Women's Activism
Bhaswati Chatterjee
11 Examining Gandhi's Disavowals and Re-thinking the "Experiment" in The
Story of My Experiments with Truth
Aishwarya Kumar
12 Gandhian Environmentalism and Its Limits: A Reading of C. K. Janu's
"Autobiographical Testimonio" Mother Forest
P. Rajitha Venugopal
PART IV
Gandhian Presence in Intimate and Public Spheres: Reflections on
Corporeality, Ethicality and Society
13 The Missing/Divergent Inscription of the Gandhian Body: Examining
Corruption in Shrilal Shukla's Raag Darbari
Indrani Das Gupta
14 Gandhi, Abstinence and Political Freedom: Reading Saadat Hasan Manto's "
Swaraj Ke Liye"
Baran Farooqi and Disha Pokhriyal
15 Gandhi and Peasant Organizations in Colonial India: A Reading of
Satinath Bhaduri's Dhorai Charit Manas
Bharti Arora
Index
List of Figures
Notes on the Contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Nishat Zaidi
PART I
Gandhi in Sonic and Visual Practices: Enunciations of "Darsan" and Activism
1 Gandhi's Image and Images of Gandhi: The Culture and Politics of Visual
Representation
Vinay Lal
2 Music for the Congregation: Assembling an Aesthetic for Prayer
Lakshmi Subramanian
3 Visualizing Gandhi: The Icon and His People
Ruchika Wason Singh
PART II
Consumptions of Gandhi: Articulations or Disarticulations?
4 Mahatma in Memescape: Making of Gandhi in Participatory Digital Culture
Haris Qadeer
5 Mahatma in Antiphony: Gandhi in Indian Nationalist, Muslim and British
Press Cartoons, 1946-1947
Barnali Saha
6 Exploration of Indian Visual Practices From 1960 to 1970: A Study of
Indian Comic Books on Gandhi
Aparna Pathak
7 Gandhi, the New Divine: Gandhi Ethos in the Malayalam Socials of 1950 and
1960s
M.H. Ilias
8 Framing Gandhi
Nishat Haider
PART III
The Construction of Self: Experimental Site of Praxis and Its Discursive
Limits
9 An Untouchable in Search of an Asketic Gandhi: The Religiosity of
Postcolonial Political
Dhritiman Chakraborty
10 Reformulation of Public-Private Dynamics in Bengali Women's
Autobiographies: Exploring Gandhi and Women's Activism
Bhaswati Chatterjee
11 Examining Gandhi's Disavowals and Re-thinking the "Experiment" in The
Story of My Experiments with Truth
Aishwarya Kumar
12 Gandhian Environmentalism and Its Limits: A Reading of C. K. Janu's
"Autobiographical Testimonio" Mother Forest
P. Rajitha Venugopal
PART IV
Gandhian Presence in Intimate and Public Spheres: Reflections on
Corporeality, Ethicality and Society
13 The Missing/Divergent Inscription of the Gandhian Body: Examining
Corruption in Shrilal Shukla's Raag Darbari
Indrani Das Gupta
14 Gandhi, Abstinence and Political Freedom: Reading Saadat Hasan Manto's "
Swaraj Ke Liye"
Baran Farooqi and Disha Pokhriyal
15 Gandhi and Peasant Organizations in Colonial India: A Reading of
Satinath Bhaduri's Dhorai Charit Manas
Bharti Arora
Index
Notes on the Contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Nishat Zaidi
PART I
Gandhi in Sonic and Visual Practices: Enunciations of "Darsan" and Activism
1 Gandhi's Image and Images of Gandhi: The Culture and Politics of Visual
Representation
Vinay Lal
2 Music for the Congregation: Assembling an Aesthetic for Prayer
Lakshmi Subramanian
3 Visualizing Gandhi: The Icon and His People
Ruchika Wason Singh
PART II
Consumptions of Gandhi: Articulations or Disarticulations?
4 Mahatma in Memescape: Making of Gandhi in Participatory Digital Culture
Haris Qadeer
5 Mahatma in Antiphony: Gandhi in Indian Nationalist, Muslim and British
Press Cartoons, 1946-1947
Barnali Saha
6 Exploration of Indian Visual Practices From 1960 to 1970: A Study of
Indian Comic Books on Gandhi
Aparna Pathak
7 Gandhi, the New Divine: Gandhi Ethos in the Malayalam Socials of 1950 and
1960s
M.H. Ilias
8 Framing Gandhi
Nishat Haider
PART III
The Construction of Self: Experimental Site of Praxis and Its Discursive
Limits
9 An Untouchable in Search of an Asketic Gandhi: The Religiosity of
Postcolonial Political
Dhritiman Chakraborty
10 Reformulation of Public-Private Dynamics in Bengali Women's
Autobiographies: Exploring Gandhi and Women's Activism
Bhaswati Chatterjee
11 Examining Gandhi's Disavowals and Re-thinking the "Experiment" in The
Story of My Experiments with Truth
Aishwarya Kumar
12 Gandhian Environmentalism and Its Limits: A Reading of C. K. Janu's
"Autobiographical Testimonio" Mother Forest
P. Rajitha Venugopal
PART IV
Gandhian Presence in Intimate and Public Spheres: Reflections on
Corporeality, Ethicality and Society
13 The Missing/Divergent Inscription of the Gandhian Body: Examining
Corruption in Shrilal Shukla's Raag Darbari
Indrani Das Gupta
14 Gandhi, Abstinence and Political Freedom: Reading Saadat Hasan Manto's "
Swaraj Ke Liye"
Baran Farooqi and Disha Pokhriyal
15 Gandhi and Peasant Organizations in Colonial India: A Reading of
Satinath Bhaduri's Dhorai Charit Manas
Bharti Arora
Index