TY - BOOK AU - Markovits, Claude TI - The un-Gandhian Gandhi: the life and afterlife of the Mahatma SN - 8178241552 U1 - 954.035092 PY - 2004/// CY - Delhi PB - Permanent Black KW - History KW - Political History KW - India KW - Mahatma Gandhi KW - Biography N1 - Includes bibliography and index. Translated from French by Claude Markovits; I. Perceptions of Gandhi 1 Images of Gandhi Gandhian Iconography -- Gandhi and the West: The Saint and His Critiques -- Gandhi's Image in France -- Gandhi on the Screen: Consecration of the Icon -- Gandhi in Indian Eyes: Diversity of Perceptions and Practices. 2 The Impossible Biography of Mohandas K. Gandhi Gandhi's Biographers -- Gandhi and the Limitations of Biography as a Genre -- Gandhi as His Own Biographer: The Autobiography 3 Gandhi's Posthumous Life Gandhi in India After 1948: A Disputed Legacy -- Gandhism and Its Interpreters -- Gandhi and Political Philosophy -- Gandhi, Political Ecology, and Alternative Movements II. Gandhi in History 4 Birth of a Leader Private Life, Public Life -- The Contribution of South Africa -- The Emergence of a National Leader in 1915-1920 -- The Transformation of Gandhi: Towards a New Political Idiom 5 Gandhi and Indian Independence Gandhi and the End of Fear -- Gandhi as an Organizer -- Gandhi's Role in Anti-British Campaigns, 1920-1942 6 Gandhi and Indian Society: The Reformer and His Legacy Gandhi and the Dignity of Manual Labour -- Gandhi and the Reconstruction of the Indian Village -- Gandhi and the Fight for the Abolition of Untouchability 7 Gandhi in the Time-frame of Indian History Between Victorian Intellectual and Neo-traditionalist Hindu -- Gandhi and Bourgeois Nationalism -- The Nature of Gandhi's Charisma -- Gandhi and the Expectations of the Peasantry 8 Gandhi and Non-violence Non-violent Rraistance: Gandhi's Contribution -- From Satyagraha to Non-violence: A Gandhian Itinerary -- Nationalism and Non-violence in India in Gandhi's Lifetime: Myth and Reality -- Gandhi and the Pacifists -- The Exemplary Nature of Gandhian Non-violence ER -