Snehal Shingavi

The Mahatma Misunderstood (eBook, PDF)

The Politics and Forms of Literary Nationalism in India

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Produktbeschreibung

The Mahatma Misunderstood studies the relationship between the production of novels in late-colonial India and nationalist agitation promoted by the Indian National Congress. The volume examines the process by which novelists who were critically engaged with Gandhian nationalism, and who saw both the potentials and the pitfalls of Gandhian political strategies, came to be seen as the Mahatma's standard-bearers rather than his loyal opposition.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Anthem Press
• Seitenzahl: 244
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780857286475
• Artikelnr.: 44360828

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