The Death and Afterlife of Mahatma Gandhi

Makarand Paranjape (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

216 Seiten

2014
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-415-69573-2 (ISBN)

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Who is responsible for the Mahatma’s death? Just one single, but determined, fanatic, the whole ideology of Hindu nationalism, the ruling Congress-led government whichfailed to protect him, or a vast majority of Indians and their descendants who considered Gandhi irrelevant? Such questions mean that Gandhi, even after his tragic and brutal death, continues to haunt India – perhaps more effectively in his afterlife than when he was alive.

The Death and Afterlife of Mahatma Gandhi is a groundbreaking and profound analysis of the assassination of the ‘father of the nation’ and its after-effects. Paranjape argues that such a catastrophic event during the very birth pangs of a new nation placed a huge burden of Oedipal guilt on Indians, and that this is the reason for the massive repression of the murder in India’s political psyche. The enduring influence of Gandhi is analysed, including his spectral presence in Indian cinema. The book culminates in Paranjape’s reading of Gandhi’s last six months in Delhi, where, from the very edge of the grave, he wrought what was perhaps his greatest miracle, the saving of Delhi and thus of India itself from internecine bloodshed.

This evocative and moving meditation into the meaning of the Mahatma’s death will be relevant to scholars of Indian political and cultural history, as well as those with an interest in Gandhi and contemporary India

Makarand R. Paranjape is Professor of English at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Among his latest monographs is Making India: Colonialism, National Culture, and the Afterlife of Indian English Authority (2012) and Altered Destinations: Self, Society, and Nation in India (2010). His previous work on Gandhi includes Decolonization and Development: Hind Svaraj Revisioned (1993).

Part One

Birth Traumas of the Nation

I: Who Killed Gandhi?

II: The Event

III: The Post-Mortem

IV: The Memorialization

V: The Repression

VI: The Unbearability of Patricide

VII: Oedipus in India

VIII: The Pollution

XIX: The Haunting

X: The Guilt

XI: The Modernity of Patricide

XII: The Mahatma’s Endgame

XIII: Gandhism vs. Gandhigiri: The Life and Afterlife of the Mahatma

XIV: Beyond the Monument: Remembering the Mahatma

XV: Gandhi and Anti-Oedipus

Part Two

‘My Death is My Message’: Mahatma, the Last 133 Days

I: Arrival in Delhi

II: ‘Do or Die’: An Old Formula in the Capital of New India

III: The Final Yajna

IV: Partitioning Women

V: Gandhi at an RSS Rally

VI: Saving India

VII: Ahimsa: ‘Softer than a flower and harder than a stone?’

VIII: Hindu-Muslim Amity

IX: The Art of Dying

Reihe/Serie	Routledge Hindu Studies Series
Zusatzinfo	3 Halftones, black and white; 3 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	500 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Östliche Philosophie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Hinduismus
	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-10	0-415-69573-2 / 0415695732
ISBN-13	978-0-415-69573-2 / 9780415695732
Zustand	Neuware