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The Un-Gandhian Gandhi - The Life and Afterlife of the Mahatma (Hardcover, First Edition,) Loot Price: R3,154
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The Un-Gandhian Gandhi - The Life and Afterlife of the Mahatma (Hardcover, First Edition,): Claude Markovits

The Un-Gandhian Gandhi - The Life and Afterlife of the Mahatma (Hardcover, First Edition,)

Claude Markovits

Series: Anthem South Asian Studies

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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 reevaluating 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.The picture of Gandhi that emerges from "The Un-Gandhian Gandhi" is of a contradictory, multifaceted figure, whose peculiar modernity, and susceptibility to varying appropriations, makes him of enduring significance for future generations.

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Imprint: Anthem Press
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Series: Anthem South Asian Studies
Release date: August 2004
First published: August 2004
Authors: Claude Markovits
Dimensions: 234 x 155 x 26mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 185
Edition: First Edition,
ISBN-13: 978-1-84331-126-3
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > General
Books > Children's & Educational > Social studies > General
Books > Children's & Educational > Life skills & personal awareness, general studies > Personal, health & social education (PHSE) > Citizenship
Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > Non-Christian religions > Religions of Indic & Oriental origin > Hinduism
Books > Biography > General
Books > Religion & Spirituality > Non-Christian religions > Religions of Indic & Oriental origin > Hinduism
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LSN: 1-84331-126-7
Barcode: 9781843311263

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