The Death and Afterlife of Mahatma Gandhi

ISBN-13: 9780415695732 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 216 str.

Makarand Paranjape

Opis

This text examines why and how Gandhi and his ideas continue to matter. It captures what it is that makes him challenge, puzzle, and exasperate, to discover how he continues to be relevant, even contemporary, and to define what saves him from simply fading into oblivion.

O autorze

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).