Gandhi in India’s Literary and Cultural Imagination

Nishat Zaidi is Professor of English at Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi. A scholar, critic and translator, she is the recipient of several prestigious grants and has conducted collaborative research with the Centre for Indian Studies in Africa, University of Witwatersrand, SA, South Asia Institute, Heidelberg University, Germany, and Michigan State University, USA. Her publications include her monographs, Makers of Indian Literature: Agha Shahid Ali (2014), Ocean as Method: Thinking with the Maritime (with Dilip Menon et al. 2022) and Terrains of Consciousness: Multilogical Perspectives on Globalization (Wurzburg University Press, 2021, co-authored with Zeno Ackermann et al.) and her translations and edited books, Day and Dastan (2018, with Alok Bhalla) and Between Worlds: The Travels of Yusuf Khan Kambalposh (2014, with Mushirul Hasan), among others. Her forthcoming work is Karbala: A Historical Play (translation of Premchand’s Play Karbala with a critical introduction and notes) to be published in 2022.Indrani Das Gupta is Assistant Professor in the Department of English, Maharaja Agrasen College, University of Delhi, India. Currently pursuing her PhD from Department of English, Jamia Millia Islamia, India, in the area of Indian Science Fiction. She is engaged in the examination of the interface of science fictionality with the paradigms of nation state and the social variables that constitute the ontological human existence. Her research interests include science fiction studies, crime fiction, children and young adult narratives, utopia/dystopia, sports culture, popular culture and postmodern narratives. She is the non-fiction editor of Mithila Review: An International Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy.

• List of Figures Notes on the Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction Nishat ZaidiPART IGandhi in Sonic and Visual Practices: Enunciations of “Darsan” and Activism 1 Gandhi’s Image and Images of Gandhi: The Culture and Politics of Visual Representation Vinay Lal2 Music for the Congregation: Assembling an Aesthetic for Prayer Lakshmi Subramanian3 Visualizing Gandhi: The Icon and His People Ruchika Wason SinghPART IIConsumptions of Gandhi: Articulations or Disarticulations? 4 Mahatma in Memescape: Making of Gandhi in Participatory Digital Culture Haris Qadeer5 Mahatma in Antiphony: Gandhi in Indian Nationalist, Muslim and British Press Cartoons, 1946–1947 Barnali Saha6 Exploration of Indian Visual Practices From 1960 to 1970: A Study of Indian Comic Books on Gandhi Aparna Pathak7 Gandhi, the New Divine: Gandhi Ethos in the Malayalam Socials of 1950 and 1960s M.H. Ilias8 Framing Gandhi Nishat HaiderPART IIIThe Construction of Self: Experimental Site of Praxis and Its Discursive Limits 9 An Untouchable in Search of an Asketic Gandhi: The Religiosity of Postcolonial Political Dhritiman Chakraborty10 Reformulation of Public–Private Dynamics in Bengali Women’s Autobiographies: Exploring Gandhi and Women’s Activism Bhaswati Chatterjee11 Examining Gandhi’s Disavowals and Re-thinking the “Experiment” in The Story of My Experiments with Truth Aishwarya Kumar12 Gandhian Environmentalism and Its Limits: A Reading of C. K. Janu’s “Autobiographical Testimonio” Mother Forest P. Rajitha VenugopalPART IVGandhian Presence in Intimate and Public Spheres: Reflections on Corporeality, Ethicality and Society 13 The Missing/Divergent Inscription of the Gandhian Body: Examining Corruption in Shrilal Shukla’s Raag Darbari Indrani Das Gupta14 Gandhi, Abstinence and Political Freedom: Reading Saadat Hasan Manto’s “Swaraj Ke Liye” Baran Farooqi and Disha Pokhriyal15 Gandhi and Peasant Organizations in Colonial India: A Reading of Satinath Bhaduri’s Dhorai Charit Manas Bharti AroraIndex