Meera Kosambi

Mahatma Gandhi and Prema Kantak

Exploring a Relationship, Exploring History

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Produktbeschreibung

Bringing together rare personal correspondence between Mahatma Gandhi and Prema Kantak, original translations of Kantak's writings, and an introduction that highlights various facets of their association, this volume provides unique insights into a truly remarkable relationship.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 150mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 581g
• ISBN-13: 9780198082934
• ISBN-10: 0198082932
• Artikelnr.: 47866416

Autorenporträt

Meera Kosambi is a prominent Indian sociologist and is the author of several books and articles in the fields of urban sociology and women's studies in India. She retired as Director, Research Centre for Women's Studies, SNDT University for Women, Mumbai.

Inhaltsangabe

* INTRODUCTION: 'Kantak's Life Trajectory'
* 'The Gandhi-Kantak Relationship'
* 'Maharashtra's Political Progression'
* 'Gandhiji's Voice in Kantak's Writing'
* ''Tension Betweeen Kantak's Feminism and Gandhian Ideology'
* GANDHIJI'S LETTERS: Selected Letters from Gandhiji to Kantak, 28
February 1929 to 16 January 1948 (contextualized by Kantak)
* KANTAK'S NOVELS: Excerpts from Kaam and Kaamini (Love and the
Beloved)
* Agniyaan (A Chariot of Fire)
* KANTAK'S NON-FICTION WRITINGS: Excerpts from Satyagrahi Maharashtra
(Maharashtra Engraved in Satyagraha)
* Hindi Striyanche Jivan (The Life of Indian Women)