The Mahatma Misunderstood

Shingavi, Snehal

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“…50 Calling JP's Congress Socialist Party (CSP) experiment of the 1930s and 1940s 'Leninist' is debatable: in fact, as Shingavi demonstrates, there is a remarkable resemblance between the CSP's position on nationalism and the CPI's Popular Front line (1936Á1939). 51 But the 1929 origins of JP's break with the Communists suggest that JP's Marxism ought to be compared with the ideas of others who, though remaining Marxists, either left or were expelled from the Soviet Communist Party at that time, including Trotsky and Roy*and not just as an ideology that was always already withering away. 52 …”

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Bihar, California, and the US Midwest: the early radicalization of Jayaprakash Narayan

Jani¹

2013

Postcolonial Studies

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Section: Marxism and Sociology In The Midwestmentioning

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Bihar, California, and the US Midwest: the early radicalization of Jayaprakash Narayan

Jani¹

2013

Postcolonial Studies

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“…This is similar to 'Black (and)3. In this sentence, Aslam recalls an inflammatory story from Angaaray (Shingavi, 2014), the 1933 collection of socialist short stories which was banned by the Indian government in response to protests. Sajjad Zaheer's story, 'A Vision of Paradise', concerned a Muslim cleric who falls asleep while he is praying and has a wet dream while still on the prayer mat.…”

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‘Sexual misery’ or ‘happy British Muslims’?: Contemporary depictions of Muslim sexuality

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We begin this article with a close look at some contemporary pictures of sexual life in the Muslim world that have been painted in certain sections of the Western media, asking how and why these pictures matter. Across a range of mainstream print media from the New York Times to the Daily Mail, and across reported events from several countries, can be found pictures of 'sexual misery'. These 'frame' Muslim men as tyrannical, Muslim women as downtrodden or exploited, and the wider world of Islam as culpable. Crucially, this is not the whole story. We then consider how these negative representations are being challenged and how they can be challenged further. In doing so, we will not simply set pictures of sexual misery against their binary opposites, namely pictures abounding in the promise of sexual happiness. Instead, we search for a more complex picture, one that unsettles stereotypes about the sexual lives of Muslims without simply idealising its subjects. This takes us to the journalism, life writing and creative non-fiction of Shelina Zahra Janmohamed and the fiction of Ayisha Malik and Amjeed Kabil. We read this long-form work critically, attending to manifest advances in depictions of the relationships of Muslim-identified individuals over the last decade or so, while also remaining alert to lacunae and limitations in the individual representations. More broadly, we hope to signal our intention to avoid both Islamophobia and Islamophilia in scrutinising literary texts.

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Social Realism and Moral Affects: The Worlds of Munshi Premchand

Govind

2019

A Companion to World Literature

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This chapter analyzes select works of Premchand, the most acclaimed prose writer of Hindi in the first half of the twentieth century. Most commentators, following some of Premchand's own later pronouncements, have sought to locate Premchand within a tradition of social realism, the dominant mode of writing in India even today. This chapter attempts to supplement such a reading, arguing that the energies of the affects (seduction, grief, laughter) that underlie plot‐planes in his work may productively be read as often breaking the frame of the didactic manner of social realism.

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The Mahatma Misunderstood

Abstract: The Mahatma Misunderstood is a study of the fiction about Gandhi produced in his lifetime, and explains why novelists both vehemently critiqued and lovingly collaborated with the Mahatma simultaneously.

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Bihar, California, and the US Midwest: the early radicalization of Jayaprakash Narayan

Bihar, California, and the US Midwest: the early radicalization of Jayaprakash Narayan

‘Sexual misery’ or ‘happy British Muslims’?: Contemporary depictions of Muslim sexuality

Social Realism and Moral Affects: The Worlds of Munshi Premchand

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The Mahatma Misunderstood

Abstract: The Mahatma Misunderstood is a study of the fiction about Gandhi produced in his lifetime, and explains why novelists both vehemently critiqued and lovingly collaborated with the Mahatma simultaneously.

Cited by 18 publications

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Bihar, California, and the US Midwest: the early radicalization of Jayaprakash Narayan

Bihar, California, and the US Midwest: the early radicalization of Jayaprakash Narayan

‘Sexual misery’ or ‘happy British Muslims’?: Contemporary depictions of Muslim sexuality

Social Realism and Moral Affects: The Worlds of Munshi Premchand

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Abstract: The Mahatma Misunderstood is a study of the fiction about Gandhi produced in his lifetime, and explains why novelists both vehemently critiqued and lovingly collaborated with the Mahatma simultaneously.