...Arjun Appadurai Copyright 2011 by Duke University Press 2011 FOREWORD Our Gandhi, Our Times Arjun Appadurai This remarkable special issue of Public Culture...

...Jonathan Hyslop This article argues that Gandhi's book Hind Swaraj was centrally concerned with undermining the influence of the violent “terrorist” wing of nationalism on Indian political militants. In particular he sought to question the inspiration that Japan's military defeat of Russia in 1905...

...Pamila Gupta Gandhi's Hind Swaraj is analyzed as a statement of transnational politics and circulation, its ideas enabled by the Indian Ocean and applicable to Goa's independence from Portuguese colonial rule. Copyright 2011 by Duke University Press 2011 This article is written very much...

...Rachel Dwyer While Gandhi's image is well known in India and throughout the world, mostly in photographs, chromolithographs, and newsreels, there are surprisingly few Indian films about the father of the nation and his role in the national drama, the historic struggle for independence, perhaps...

...Shruti Kapila This article aims to reconstruct Gandhi as a political thinker. In so doing it argues that truth rather than nonviolence was the central category of Gandhian politics. Truth for Gandhi was a capacity that broke with the consensual and took the form of an insistent visibility. Gandhi...

...Ritu Birla Gandhi's thematics of addiction mark him as acutely present in his time, even as they launch his temporal performativity. Publicized via transnational debates on the legality of opium and anxieties about the market as casino, the problem of addiction reflected the circulation of law...

...Keith Breckenridge Gandhi is conventionally viewed as a lifelong critic of Western modernity and colonial government. This essay shows that these views, which were famously expressed in Hind Swaraj , took form in his struggle against the Transvaal state between 1906 and 1908. Before that time...

...Christopher Pinney Gandhi was obliged to negotiate the central problem of Bal Gangadhar Tilak's dominance of Indian politics through the first two decades of the twentieth century and the astonishing symmetry between many of their concerns. This article explores the distance that separates Gandhi...

...Uday S. Mehta This essay is on why patience as a concept is central to understanding Gandhi's critique of modernity and his conception of the self. Copyright 2011 by Duke University Press 2011 I am very grateful to Ritu Birla, Faisal Devji, Shruti Kapila, Aishwary Kumar, and Achille...

...Aishwary Kumar There is a peculiar absence of the untouchable in Hind Swaraj . The absence is particularly striking, given that the annihilation of untouchability, if not of caste, would subsequently become indispensable for Gandhi's preoccupations with equality. More than two decades after Hind...

...Leela Gandhi This essay considers recent critiques of postcolonial theory and proposes democracy as a theme likely to prove crucial for the future of the field. It argues that a properly postcolonial turn toward democracy demands a new philosophical, political, and ethical valuation of the concept...

...Isabel Hofmeyr Gandhi's Hind Swaraj is a seminal text setting out the Mahatma's key ideas on nonviolence and civil disobedience. The book takes the form of a dialogue between a Reader and an Editor discussing questions of how British India should best obtain home rule. Most scholarship on the book...

...Faisal Devji Unlike the pacifists and humanitarians with whom he is routinely associated, Gandhi was critical of human rights as a legal and political project. Indeed, he attributed modern violence precisely to the fact that life had become an absolute value, something that could therefore...

...Ashis Nandy This story can be read as a case study of a heartless killer sentenced to life imprisonment not for killing Muslims but for killing Gandhi because of his bias for the Muslims. Had Madanlal Pahwa not been part of the conspiracy, he would have gone scot-free. Yet that impunity...

...) and Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi's support of it. She shows how Savarkar addressed this text, written behind prison walls, to a Hindu community to claim that Savarkar's territorial nationalism was more authentically Hindu than Gandhi's. Copyright 2010 by Duke University Press 2010 I am grateful...

... of departure contemporary scholars such as Aernout Zevenbergen, who ask what it means to be a man today, this article draws on the work of Slavoj Žižek and Gandhi to ask what place reflection — or, less ambitiously, learning — has in young people's sense of manliness. Copyright 2011 by Duke University...

... to Hind Swaraj , the article proposes an alternative understanding of the emergence of this Hindu modern by examining Gandhi's particular articulation of the relation among ethics, aesthetics, and politics. Copyright 2011 by Duke University Press 2011 Appadurai, Arjun. 1998 . Dead certainty...

... Ritu Birla and Faisal Devji In the 2006 Bollywood hit Lage raho Munna Bhai (Carry on Munna Bhai), a petty gangster named Munna is visited by the spec- ter of Gandhi, who advises him on winning the affections of a radio announcer by deploying the tactics of love...

.... Gandhi , Mohandas K. 1928 . Satyagraha in South Africa . Ahmedabad: Navajivan Publishing House. Gandhi , Mohandas K. 1983 [1948]. Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth. New York: Dover. Gillion , K. L. 1977. The Fiji Indians: Challenge to European Dominance...

... on issues affecting the downtrodden marshaled a point of reference. Foreign correspondents sent wire reports about anticolonial struggle, the Indian independence movement, and about leaders such as Mohandas Gandhi and Dr. B. R. Ambedkar, among others. Dalit-related topics found their way into columns...