Gandhi in India's Literary and Cultural Imagination

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

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• Estudos literários: literatura pós-colonial
• Filosofia social e política
• Estudos cultirais

Gandhi's Image;Sabarmati Ashram;Gandhian Values;Young Men;Amar Chitra Katha;Vande Mataram;Hind Swaraj;Non-violent Resistance;Gandhi's Influence;Gandhian Discourse;Gandhian Ethos;Jallianwala Bagh;Dandi March;Malayalam Cinema;Gandhi's Life;Gandhi's Body;Gandhi Story;Early Comic Books;Hindi Cinema;Gandhi Memes;Political Cartoons;Round Table;Round Table Conference;Indian Wrestling;Internet Memes