Gandhi S Autobiographical Construction Of Selfhood

Author : Clara Neary
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 117 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2023-03-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783031227868

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Gandhi’s Autobiographical Construction of Selfhood by Clara Neary Pdf

This book addresses the topics of autobiography, self-representation and status as a writer in Mahatma Gandhi's autobiographical work The Story of My Experiments with Truth (1927, 1929). Gandhi remains an elusive figure, despite the volumes of literature written on him in the seven decades since his assassination. Scholars and biographers alike agree that “no work on his life has portrayed him in totality” (Desai, 2009), and, although “arguably the most popular figure of the first half of the twentieth century” and “one of the most eminent luminaries of our time,” Gandhi the individual remains “as much an enigma as a person of endless fascination” (Murrell, 2008). Yet there has been relatively little scholarly engagement with Gandhi’s autobiography, and published output has largely been concerned with mining the text for its biographical details, with little concern for how Gandhi represents himself. The author addresses this gap in the literature, while also considering Gandhi as a writer. This book provides a close reading of the linguistic structure of the text with particular focus upon Gandhi’s self-representation, drawing on a cognitive stylistic framework for analysing linguistic representations of selfhood (Emmott 2002). It will be of interest to stylisticians, cognitive linguists, discourse analysts, and scholars in related fields such as Indian literature and postcolonial studies.

Author : Javed Majeed
Publisher : Springer
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2007-01-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780230286818

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Autobiography, Travel and Postnational Identity by Javed Majeed Pdf

This book examines concepts of travel in the autobiographies of leading Indian nationalists in order to show how nationalism is grounded in notions of individual selfhood, and how the writing of autobiography, fused with the genre of the travelogue, played a key role in formulating the complex tie between interiority and nationality in South Asia.

Author : Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1948
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:883300434

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Gandhi's Autobiography by Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi Pdf

Author : M. K. Gandhi
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 519 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2007-06-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780141924090

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An Autobiography by M. K. Gandhi Pdf

The life of Gandhi, in his own words. Featuring a new introduction by Pankaj Mishra in this 150th Anniversary Edition. 'Christ gave us the goals and Mahatma Gandhi the tactics' Martin Luther King Jr. *** Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born in western India in 1869. He was educated in London and later travelled to South Africa, where he experienced racism and took up the rights of Indians, instituting his first campaign of passive resistance. In 1915 he returned to British-controlled India, bringing to a country in the throes of independence his commitment to non-violent change, and his belief always in the power of truth. Under Gandhi's lead, millions of protesters would engage in mass campaigns of civil disobedience, seeking change through moral conversion of the colonizers. For Gandhi, the long path towards Indian independence would lead to imprisonment and hardship, yet he never once forgot the principles of truth and non-violence so dear to him. Written in the 1920s, Gandhi's autobiography tells not only of his struggles and inspirations but also speaks frankly of his failures. It is a powerful and enduring account of an extraordinary life. *** 'Gandhi's ideas have played a vital role in South Africa's transformation and with the help of Gandhi's teaching, apartheid has been overcome' Nelson Mandela 'Generations to come will scarce believe that such a one as this walked the earth in flesh and blood' Albert Einstein upon the death of M. K. Gandhi 'I have the greatest admiration for Mahatma Gandhi. He was a great human being with a deep understanding of human nature. His life has inspired me' The Dalai Lama

Author : Mahatma Gandhi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2008-06
Category : East Indians
ISBN : 1436686067

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Mahatma Gandhi by Mahatma Gandhi Pdf

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

Author : M. K. Gandhi
Publisher : Fingerprint! Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2020-08-06
Category : India
ISBN : 8172343116

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The Story of My Experiments with Truth by M. K. Gandhi Pdf

This unusual autobiography, The Story of My Experiments with Truth, is a window to the workings of Mahatma Gandhi's mind, a window to the emotions of his heart, a window to understanding what drove this seemingly ordinary man to the heights of being the father of a nation-- India. Starting with his days as a boy, Gandhi takes one through his trials and turmoils and situations that moulded his philosophy of life: going through child marriage, his studies in England, practicing Law in South Africa-- and his Satyagraha there-- to the early beginnings of the Independence movement in India. He did not aim to write an autobiography but rather share the experience of his various experiments with truth to arrive at what he perceived as Absolute Truth-- the ideal of his struggle against racism, violence and colonialism. This is a translation by Mahadev Desai."

Author : M. K. Gandhi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1704853117

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Gandhi's Autobiography by M. K. Gandhi Pdf

God is always in the truth. It has been said in the VedaShastras and Puranas that there is no other religion like truth. The biggest benefit of speaking the truth is that we do not have to remember where and what we said. A lie may have momentary attraction, but the real attraction is in the truth. Mahatma Gandhi has said that there is no God apart from truth, I have never experienced this. He named his autobiography as 'Experiments of Truth'. Man lies in greed and lies. The child speaks the truth in his infancy, but we selfishly hold him in the path of untruth. The path of truth is like the edge of a sword. One has to be very careful while walking on it. Truth does not just mean lack of others. Calling the deaf 'deaf' and kane as 'kana' may be fact, but not true. Fact becomes painful when it becomes untrue. Writing, speaking and expressing things in the same way is not true. There should also be affection, emotion, inspiration and contemplation for truth. Consider truth as paramount in the world. Truth should not only appear in conduct but also in emotion.

Author : Samraghni Bonnerjee
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2020-12-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000333558

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Subaltern Women’s Narratives by Samraghni Bonnerjee Pdf

Subaltern Women's Narratives brings together intersectional feminist scholarship from the Humanities and Social Sciences and explores subaltern women’s narratives of resistance and subversion. Interdisciplinary in nature, the collection focuses on fictional texts, archival records, and ethnographic research to explore the lived experiences of subaltern women in different marginalised communities across a wide geographical landscape, as they negotiate their way through modes of labour and activism. Thematically grouped, the focus of this book is two-fold: to look at the lived experiences of subaltern women as they negotiate their lives in a world of political flux and conflicts; and to examine subaltern women’s dissenting practices as recorded in texts and archives. This collection will push the boundaries of scholarship on decolonial and postcolonial feminism and subaltern studies, reading women’s subversive practices especially in the themes of epistemology and embodiment. This book is aimed primarily at scholars, postgraduates, and undergraduates working in the fields of colonial and postcolonial studies. It will appeal to both historians and scholars of nineteenth century and contemporary literature. Specifically scholars working on subaltern theory, feminist theory, indigenous cultures, anticolonial resistance, and the Global South will find this book particularly relevant.

Author : Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
Publisher : Public Affairs Press (DC)
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1948-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0818302232

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Gandhi's Autobiography by Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi Pdf

Author : Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi,Mahatma Gandhi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2019-09-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1638231885

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Mohandas K. Gandhi, Autobiography by Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi,Mahatma Gandhi Pdf

"My purpose," Mahatma Gandhi writes of this book, "is to describe experiments in the science of Satyagraha, not to say how good I am." Satyagraha, Gandhi's nonviolent protest movement (satya = true, agraha = firmness), came to stand, like its creator, as a moral principle and a rallying cry; the principle was truth and the cry freedom. The life of Gandhi has given fire and fiber to freedom fighters and to the untouchables of the world: hagiographers and patriots have capitalized on Mahatma myths. Yet Gandhi writes: "Often the title [Mahatma, Great Soul] has deeply pained me. . . . But I should certainly like to narrate my experiments in the spiritual field which are known only to myself, and from which I have derived such power as I possess for working in the political field." Clearly, Gandhi never renounced the world; he was neither pacifist nor cult guru. Who was Gandhi? In the midst of resurging interest in the man who freed India, inspired the American Civil Rights Movement, and is revered, respected, and misunderstood all over the world, the time is proper to listen to Gandhi himself -- in his own words, his own "confessions," his autobiography. Gandhi made scrupulous truth-telling a religion and his Autobiography inevitably reminds one of other saints who have suffered and burned for their lapses. His simply narrated account of boyhood in Gujarat, marriage at age 13, legal studies in England, and growing desire for purity and reform has the force of a man extreme in all things. He details his gradual conversion to vegetarianism and ahimsa (non-violence) and the state of celibacy (brahmacharya, self-restraint) that became one of his more arduous spiritual trials. In the political realm he outlines the beginning of Satyagraha in South Africa and India, with accounts of the first Indian fasts and protests, his initial errors and misgivings, his jailings, and continued cordial dealings with the British overlords. Gandhi was a fascinating, complex man, a brilliant leader and guide, a seeker of truth who died for his beliefs but had no use for martyrdom or sainthood. His story, the path to his vision of Satyagraha and human dignity, is a critical work of the twentieth century, and timeless in its courage and inspiration.

Author : Mohandas Gandhi
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2016-10
Category : Statesmen
ISBN : 1539685705

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The Story of My Experiments With Truth by Mohandas Gandhi Pdf

This is the extended edition of Mahatma Gandhi's original and unabridged autobiography titledThe Story of My Experiments with Truth, completed with a foreword from The Gandhi Research Foundation. The Story of My Experiments with Truth is the autobiography of Mohandas K. Gandhi, covering his life from early childhood through to 1921. It was written and published in his journal, Navjivan from 1925 to 1929. It was initiated at the insistence of Swami Anand and other close co-workers of Gandhi, who encouraged him to explain the background of his public campaigns. The Story of My Experiments with Truth is the personal account of the life of the man who freed India from colonization through the Satyagraha - nonviolent protest - movement. His early boyhood life, legal studies, purification, and ultimate salvation of his homeland is carefully recounted in this inspiring and critical work of insurmountable importance. In 1999, the book was designated as one of the "100 Best Spiritual Books of the 20th Century" by a committee of global spiritual and religious authorities.

Author : Carol E. Leon
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0820472549

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Movement and Belonging by Carol E. Leon Pdf

The uncertainties and newness that surround us today prompt radical questions about ourselves and our relationship with the external world. How do and can we belong to the places and spaces of today? Movement and Belonging: Lines, Places, and Spaces of Travel describes current realities and suggests ways in which you can define yourself in an ever-changing world. Using the travel writings of V. S. Naipaul, Michael Ondaatje, Patrick White, and D. H. Lawrence, Movement and Belonging demonstrates that «authentic» travel - embracing changing boundaries and cultures - enables you to create sites of belonging where you can find your sense of self.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8194284619

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Mahatma Gandhi Autobiography by Anonim Pdf

Author : Stephen J. Rosow,Naeem Inayatullah,Mark Rupert
Publisher : Lynne Rienner Publishers
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : International economic relations
ISBN : 1555874622

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The Global Economy as Political Space by Stephen J. Rosow,Naeem Inayatullah,Mark Rupert Pdf

Explores the social, political, philosophical and cultural dimensions of the shift from a nation-state-based economy to a global economy.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2015-10-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004305809

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Childhood in the Late Ottoman Empire and After by Anonim Pdf

This volume explores the variety of ways in which childhood was experienced, lived and remembered in the late Ottoman Empire and its successor states. The period of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was a time of rapid change, and the history of childhood reflects the impact of new expectations, lived realities and national responsibilities on the youngest members of societies undergoing monumental change because of ideological, wartime and demographic shifts. Drawing on comparisons both within the Balkans, Turkey and the Arab lands and with Western Europe and beyond, the chapters investigate the many ways in which upheaval and change affected the youth. Particular attention is paid to changing conceptions of childhood, gender roles and newly dominant national imperatives. Contributors include: Elif Akşit, Laurence Brockliss, Nazan Çiçek, Alex Drace-Francis, Benjamin C. Fortna, Naoum Kaytchev, Duygu Köksal, Kathryn Libal, Nazan Maksudyan, Heidi Morrison, and Philipp Wirtz. This title, in its entirety, is available online in Open Access.