Gandhi in India's literary and cultural imagination. (2022)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Nishat Zaidi, Indrani Das Gupta.
• Editors: Zaidi, Nishat; Das Gupta, Indrani
• Contents: 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
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: New Delhi : Routledge India
• Publication Date: 2022
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 954.035092; Politics and culture -- India; Influence; Political and social views; In literature; In mass media
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781000577747; 9781000577723; 9781003145479
• Related ISBNs: 9780367688875; 9780367702847
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