The Un-Gandhian Gandhi

The Life and Afterlife of the Mahatma

Claude Markovits

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English

Anthem Press
01 July 2004

Biography; Biography: general; Hinduism; Educational: Citizenship & social education

Series: Anthem South Asian Studies

This major study reconsiders the creation of the Gandhian legend through the myriad texts and images that helped spread it through both India and the Western world. In revealing how the picture of the Mahatma as saint-as-politician was founded on Indian nationalistic selectivity and limited Western representations of Gandhi, Claude Markovits shows how Gandhi's legend has obscured the facts of his public career. Gandhi's professional role in the public sphere, Markovits argues, was heavily influenced by his long and critical phase of maturation in South Africa, a period often dismissed as the precursor to his celebrated work in India. Markovits proposes that Gandhi's later Indian career, marked by his meteoric rise to prominence, was the result of his own radical self-reinvention as he negotiated the pitfalls of political life in order to create his influential political manifesto. In re-evaluating critical stages of Gandhi's career, and his sometimes ambivalent ideological positions, Markovits confronts the discrepancies between his early and late careers, closely rereading the Mahatma's varying intellectual positions as described both within his own writings and in those by commentators and biographers. Rather than seeing Gandhi as an upholder of traditional Indian values, Markovits stresses the paradoxical modernity of Gandhi's anti-modernism.

By: Claude Markovits
Imprint: Anthem Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 155mm, Spine: 26mm
Weight: 454g
ISBN: 9781843311270
ISBN 10: 1843311275
Series: Anthem South Asian Studies
Pages: 184
Publication Date: 01 July 2004
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Claude Markovits is Director of research at CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique) and is Director of the Centre d'Etudes de L'Inde et de L'Asie du Sud, L'Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, France.