The un-Gandhian Gandhi: the life and afterlife of the Mahatma / Claude Markovits
Material type: TextPublication details: Delhi: Permanent Black, c2004Description: vi, 173 pISBN: 8178241552Subject(s): History -- Political History -- India | Political History -- Mahatma Gandhi | Mahatma Gandhi -- Biography | India -- HistoryDDC classification: 954.035092Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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General Books | Central Library, Sikkim University General Book Section | 954.035092 MAR/T (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | P09736 |
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
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