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The Mahatma Misunderstood: The Politics and Forms of Literary Nationalism in India Reprint Edition
Author(s): Snehal Shingavi (Author)
- Publisher: Anthem Press
- Publication Date: November 1, 2014
- Edition: Reprint
- Language: English
- Print length: 244 pages
- ISBN-10: 1783083298
- ISBN-13: 9781783083299
Book 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.
Editorial Reviews
Review
“Richly historicized and rigorously attentive to form, this book evades stale theoretical assumptions and makes an important contribution to the study of Indian English fiction. Inviting a reconsideration of the problematic of anticolonial nationalism, Shingavi offers lucid and erudite Gramscian readings of significant texts and their engagement with the fraught hermeneutics of Gandhi as Mahatma.” —Dr Priyamvada Gopal, Faculty of English, University of Cambridge
About the Author
Snehal Shingavi is Assistant Professor in the Department of English at the University of Texas, Austin, where he specializes in the teaching of English, Hindi and Urdu literature from India and Pakistan.
