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Publisher: Satyam Publishing House, New Delhi |
| Author Muniba Sami | |
| Language: English | |
| Pages: 180 | |
| Cover: HARDCOVER | |
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9x6 inch |
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Weight 380 gm |
| Edition: 2010 | |
| ISBN: 9789380190259 | |
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HBR640 |
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Gandhi's impact on the Indian psyche and creativity is an intrinsic point of the nation's freedom struggle. His pluralism shaped his social reformism and moralism which elevated him to the status of medieval saints. Muniba Sami's well researched scholarly book accentuates his place in history and popular imagination. His iconic idolation or deification is rooted in his refusal to be broken up or be defeated in life. There is a logical link between his ideology and his indomitable will which is strengthened by his cultural assimilation of values and symbols and has a postmodern perspective. His thoughts and action on the diverse and contradictory elements of dignity of labour, opposition to centralized modern state; equating political justice and cultural dignity he utilized tradition as resource and emphasized dialogue between traditions but he always believed in space for revision while striving for experimental validation. Muniba Sami has analysed and interpreted these aspects of Gandhi's views on empire, modernity, communalism, partition, anti-colonial, nonviolent, nationalism as well as his perspective towards linguistic colonization of the Indian Society.
She has rightly taken up new perspectives towards Gandhi's ability to promote dialogue and accommodate different perspective and shows it to be the essence of his salutary post-nationalism. He not only challenged inequality but proposed the theory of autonomy which empowered the individuals within their tradition and community. Moreover, his feminization of nationalism subverted the space for masculinity. Muniba Sami's brilliant analysis of the novels of Raja Rao, Venkatramani, Anand, Narayan, Nahal, Sahgal, Jawahar Lal, Tharoor, Malgonkar and her wide reading of critics and cultural thinkers add logical validity to her interpretation. I am confident Gandhi's iconsiation and his postmodern and postnational strength of his experiments with truth will open up new vistas for understanding Gandhi's cultural and moral impact on Indian super structure, and value system as well as the postcolonial postmodern world for social justice and full play to an individual's creative potentiality.
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