Brown, Rebecca M.

Gandhi's spinning wheel and the making of India/ Rebecca M. Brown - New York, NY: Routledge, 2010. - viii,151p. : ill. ; 22cm.

"Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Action and identity: colonial representation of spinning
2. Capturing the wheel in motion: photography and spinning
3. Discovering spinning: towards Gandhi's visual rhetoric
4. Gender and the modern chakra
5. national symbols: Gandhi and the spinning wheel

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Spinning-Wheel--Political Aspects--History--India
Painting & Photography--India
Symbolism in Politics--History--India
Nationalism--History--India


India--History--Autonomy and Independence Movements
India--Politics and Government

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