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Journal Article
boundary 2 (2014) 41 (2): 6–7.
Published: 01 May 2014
... sense of what remains, apparently, difficult to achieve, and
that is to say, the daily mobilization of Gandhian Satyagraha—and at the
commencement of our terrible winter this year and always, everywhere, the
threat of war, there they were—Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr.,
and Nelson...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2011) 38 (3): 67–86.
Published: 01 August 2011
... as the
voice of sweet reasonableness, legal sobriety, obedience to the Constitu-
tion and to Gandhi’s teachings, correctness, rectitude, restraint, and com-
promise. This tone is well illustrated in the following statement published in
the January 2002 issue, from a press interview by Jayendhra Saraswathi...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2012) 39 (2): 111–141.
Published: 01 May 2012
... general of free India, Chakravarty Raja-
gopalachari; and the peerless Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. Bandyo-
padhyay’s analysis shows how, in this complex terrain, a modern textual
apprehension of the Gita becomes central to the task of drawing up an
evolving and remembering Indian...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2020) 47 (2): 199–225.
Published: 01 May 2020
... Poetics in the Caucasus . Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press . Foucault Michel . 1970 . The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences . New York : Random House . Gandhi Leela . 2006 . Affective Communities: Anticolonial Thought, Fin-de-siècle Radicalism...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2013) 40 (1): 55–76.
Published: 01 February 2013
... such appeals. His version of the post-
secular actually comes closer to modern secularism as we already know it.
In January 1934, a huge earthquake struck the northern Indian
region of Bihar, killing many thousands. Gandhi immediately declared that
the earthquake represented God’s vengeance...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2024) 51 (3): 173–219.
Published: 01 August 2024
.... The first article in the collection, published in 1931, addresses such a figure, Mahatma Gandhi: “He has been compared to Saint Francis of Assisi, to Moses guiding his people; Romain Rolland calls him the Indian Christ—what a heavy burden for this frail little man this profound adoration is, with which...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2013) 40 (2): 215–238.
Published: 01 May 2013
... by Indira Gandhi’s government in 1975. These novels are there-
fore not only historical meditations on the relationship between the forms
of human collectives and the diversity of textual practices that script these
forms but also astute political investigations into how the future of such col...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2005) 32 (2): 201–225.
Published: 01 May 2005
... configurations. While bourgeois nationalists, from Gandhi onward,
found it necessary to mobilize the largest popular element of the colo-
nized—the peasants—against the colonial state, they did so without hand-
ing over effective sovereignty to those in whose name they spoke. Thus,
rather than establishing...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2015) 42 (1): 43–65.
Published: 01 February 2015
... Rabindranath Tagore and the Mahatma Mohandas Karamchand
Gandhi about the nature of India’s freedom after decolonization from the
British. Substantively in agreement, but modally divided, they keep their
argument going until Gandhi calls it off with the understanding that their dif-
ferences are merely...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2004) 31 (2): 197–218.
Published: 01 May 2004
... on the Delhi riots following the assassination of Mrs. Gandhi,
‘‘The Ghosts of Mrs. Gandhi Published in 1995, the year following Der-
18. A majority of scholars recognizes literature as the domain where these specters
of embodied loss roam: for instance, in Ghostly Matters: Haunting and the Sociological...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2023) 50 (2): 211–222.
Published: 01 May 2023
... racism. Chapters 3 and 4 venture into mediatic terrain. The first of these discusses specific intellectuals such as Bakimchandra Chattopadhyay, Rammohun Roy, Bal Gangadhar Lokmanya Tilak in the nineteenth century and Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan and Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi in the twentieth century...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2004) 31 (2): 245–274.
Published: 01 May 2004
...’’ imagination in South
Asia has been repeatedly drawn. Victor Kiernan, his translator and lifelong
friend, notes that Faiz ‘‘was repelled by the prospect held up by Gandhi of
a united ‘Hindostani’ language, a nondescript neither Hindi nor Urdu 7 The
mythopoetic universe of his work is replete...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2004) 31 (2): 81–111.
Published: 01 May 2004
... of Palestine, the gender divisions will
perhaps settle into the same or similar lines. Bhubaneswari Bhaduri, the
subaltern in ‘‘Can the Subaltern Speak was a woman who used her gen-
dered body to inscribe an unheard message; the bomber who died with
Rajiv Gandhi, also a woman, did not.27 (It is interesting...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2004) 31 (2): 1–9.
Published: 01 May 2004
...-sounding source for
this idea: a book called The Other Side of the Medal, by Edward Thompson,
father of E. P. Thompson, who argued in the 1920s, as the national move-
ment became under Gandhi’s leadership for the first time a mass movement
against British rule, that the British ought to recognize...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2023) 50 (1): 165–205.
Published: 01 February 2023
... chest), on the other. The list of those who have, with varying degrees of seriousness, accused Modi of being a Führer extends from opposition leader and Nehru family scion Rahul Gandhi and former prime minister of Pakistan and one-time cricket star Imran Khan to Pink Floyd cofounder Roger Waters...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2008) 35 (3): 239–250.
Published: 01 August 2008
... of iconization, by which older authorities are recast as
decorative signatures and publicized in a different realm of value. In Shan-
kar’s Nayak, the mythic and historical memories of Shiva the Hindu God,
Shivaji the Hindu King, Gandhi the leader, and Thomas Alva Edison the
innovator mix and match...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2022) 49 (1): 105–135.
Published: 01 February 2022
..., his arena of action is the road and the street. The violence that accompanied the partition of the country in 1947 actually showed how unresolved—in spite of all that was written and said by Gandhi, Nehru, or Tagore—the question of Indian identity remained even at the end of the struggle...
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Journal Article
boundary 2 (2011) 38 (3): 87–118.
Published: 01 August 2011
... the
political importance of the ideas of, say, Gandhi or Confucianism (to cite
two incommensurable categories: an individual and a tradition), since they
were clearly influential in a given geocultural site, and then lead on to an
exposition of how or why they are important in practice. Comparison...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2013) 40 (1): 191–222.
Published: 01 February 2013
...-rule on account of their “barbaric”
attitudes toward women, in queer times, gay and lesbian identities become
markers of Western modernity and Oriental repressiveness. The “failure”
23. Leela Gandhi, “Loving Well: Homosexuality and Utopian Thought in Post/Colonial
India,” in Queering India...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2015) 42 (3): 1–17.
Published: 01 August 2015
..., and Arab thinking. Mohandas Gandhi in India was
the original visionary of alternatives to Euromodernity. His immediate suc-
cessors inherited the conviction, if not his religious views, in their pursuit
of Indian autonomy. Chinese revolutionaries from the late Qing dynasty to
Mao Zedong wrestled...
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