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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Anthem Press
• Seitenzahl: 244
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 402g
• ISBN-13: 9781783083299
• ISBN-10: 1783083298
• Artikelnr.: 41376045

Autorenporträt

Snehal Shingavi is Assistant Professor in the Department of English at the University of Texas, Austin, where he specializes in the teaching of English, Hindi and Urdu literature from India and Pakistan.

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