Imagining the Indian nationalist movement

Revolutionary metaphors in imagery of the freedom struggle

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2391027
AutoresKama Maclean (0000-0002-8562-5696, University of New South Wales, Kensington, Australia, autor de correspondencia)
Año2014
Volumen19
Número1
Páginas7-34
Fecha de publicación2014-03-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of Material Culture (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1359-1835 • E-ISSN: 1460-3586
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1359183513502408
OpenAlexW2154313344
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas9
Referencias citadas23

Recent interventions suggest that the history of India's nationalist movement might be profitably reconstructed with reference to visual culture as a way of counteracting both dominant Congress teleologies and the colonial prejudices embedded in governmental records. This article furthers this hypothesis by undertaking a close examination of Desh Chintan, a rich nationalist image from the 1930s. Grounding Desh Chintan against a matrix of archival sources, banned literature, oral history interviews and other posters of the era presents a substantially different picture of the way in which the anti-colonial movement was conceived in the 1930s. This analysis suggests that there was a moment in the freedom struggle in which support for acts of retributive revolutionary violence were unproblematically maintained alongside genuine enthusiasm for the Gandhian program of non-violence

Aesthetics · Art · Colonialism · Enthusiasm · Nationalism · Nationalist Movement · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Gender Studies · History · Indian History and Philosophy · Law · Psychology · Social Psychology · South Asian Studies and Conflicts · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies