Gandhi in Indias Literary and Cultural Imagination

This book engages with the socio-cultural imaginings of Gandhi in literature, history, visual and popular culture. It explores multiple iterations of his ideas, myths and philosophies, which have inspired the work of filmmakers, playwrights, cartoonists and artists for generations.

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Nishat Zaidi is Professor of English at Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi. A scholar, critic and translator, she is the recipient of several prestigious grants and has conducted collaborative research with the Centre for Indian Studies in Africa, University of Witwatersrand, SA, South Asia Institute, Heidelberg University, Germany, and Michigan State University, USA. Her publications include her monographs, Makers of Indian Literature: Agha Shahid Ali (2014), Ocean as Method: Thinking with the Maritime (with Dilip Menon et al. 2022) and Terrains of Consciousness: Multilogical Perspectives on Globalization (Wurzburg University Press, 2021, co-authored with Zeno Ackermann et al.) and her translations and edited books, Day and Dastan (2018, with Alok Bhalla) and Between Worlds: The Travels of Yusuf Khan Kambalposh (2014, with Mushirul Hasan), among others. Her forthcoming work is Karbala: A Historical Play (translation of Premchand's Play Karbala with a critical introduction and notes) to be published in 2022.

Indrani Das Gupta is Assistant Professor in the Department of English, Maharaja Agrasen College, University of Delhi, India. Currently pursuing her PhD from Department of English, Jamia Millia Islamia, India, in the area of Indian Science Fiction. She is engaged in the examination of the interface of science fictionality with the paradigms of nation state and the social variables that constitute the ontological human existence. Her research interests include science fiction studies, crime fiction, children and young adult narratives, utopia/dystopia, sports culture, popular culture and postmodern narratives. She is the non-fiction editor of Mithila Review: An International Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy.

Inhalt

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, 19461947

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 PublicPrivate 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