TY  - BOOK
AU  - Shingavi,Snehal
TI  - The Mahatma misunderstood: the politics and forms of literary nationalism in India 
SN  - 9780857285119 (Hbk : alk. paper)
U1  - 891/.4 23
PY  - 2014///
CY  - London
PB  - Anthem press
KW  - Gandhi,
KW  - Indic fiction
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - National characteristics, East Indian, in literature
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-222) and index; The Mahatma as proof: the nationalist origins of the historiography of Indian writing in English -- The Mahatma didn't say so, but ... : Mulk Raj Anand's Untouchable and the sympathies of middle-class nationalists -- The Mahatma may be all wrong about politics, but ... : Raja Rao's Kanthapura and the religious imagination of the Indian, secular, nationalist middle class -- The missing Mahatma: Ahmed Ali and the aesthetics of Muslim anticolonialism -- The grammar of the Gandhians: Jayaprakash Narayan and the figure of Gandhi -- The Mahatma misunderstood: the arrested development of the nationalist dialectic -- Conclusion: Dangerous solidarities
ER  -