The Mahatma Misunderstood : The Politics and Forms of Literary Nationalism in India (Diversity and Plurality in South Asia)

Shingavi, Snehal

Anthem Press（2014/11発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 244 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781783083299
• DDC分類 809.3935854035

Full Description

"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.

Contents

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