Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 The Mahatma as Proof: The Nationalist Origins of the Historiography of Indian Writing in English
- Chapter 2 “The Mahatma didn't say so, but …”: Mulk Raj Anand's Untouchable and the Sympathies of Middle-Class Nationalists
- Chapter 3 “The Mahatma may be all wrong about politics, but …”: Raja Rao's Kanthapura and the Religious Imagination of the Indian, Secular, Nationalist Middle Class
- Chapter 4 The Missing Mahatma: Ahmed Ali and the Aesthetics of Muslim Anticolonialism
- Chapter 5 The Grammar of the Gandhians: Jayaprakash Narayan and the Figure of Gandhi
- Chapter 6 The Mahatma Misunderstood: The Arrested Development of the Nationalist Dialectic
- Conclusion: Dangerous Solidarities
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 The Mahatma as Proof: The Nationalist Origins of the Historiography of Indian Writing in English
- Chapter 2 “The Mahatma didn't say so, but …”: Mulk Raj Anand's Untouchable and the Sympathies of Middle-Class Nationalists
- Chapter 3 “The Mahatma may be all wrong about politics, but …”: Raja Rao's Kanthapura and the Religious Imagination of the Indian, Secular, Nationalist Middle Class
- Chapter 4 The Missing Mahatma: Ahmed Ali and the Aesthetics of Muslim Anticolonialism
- Chapter 5 The Grammar of the Gandhians: Jayaprakash Narayan and the Figure of Gandhi
- Chapter 6 The Mahatma Misunderstood: The Arrested Development of the Nationalist Dialectic
- Conclusion: Dangerous Solidarities
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
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- The Mahatma MisunderstoodThe Politics and Forms of Literary Nationalism in India, pp. v - viPublisher: Anthem PressPrint publication year: 2013