Gandhi’s Failure
Anticolonial Movements and Postcolonial Futures
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6324604 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sandipto Dasgupta (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 647-662 |
| Publication date | 2017-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Perspectives on Politics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1537-5927 • E-ISSN: 1541-0986 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s1537592717000883 |
| OpenAlex | W2746777129 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 10 |
| References cited | 25 |
M.K. Gandhi was the undisputed leader of India's struggle for independence. Yet his vision for postcolonial India was completely marginalized at the moment of decolonization. The article takes this seemingly paradoxical juncture as the vantage point from which to offer a critique of Gandhi's political thought and more broadly an analysis of the shift from anticolonial movements to postcolonial rule. Through the voices of Gandhi's two most significant contemporary critics—B.R. Ambedkar and Jawaharlal Nehru—the article shows how his ideas failed to either inspire the struggle of the ruled (Ambedkar), or address the anxieties of the would-be rulers (Nehru). Gandhi's vision for a postcolonial India persisted within the conceptual constellation of negating colonial modernity, rather than the historical possibilities of postcolonial futures. These predicaments provide an opportunity to analyze the persistence of modern western political imaginaries in the decolonized world. Not through mere assertions of continuity or mimicry, but rather through the concrete struggles, aspirations, and anxieties that constituted the strands of those transitional moments
Aesthetics · Colonialism · Decolonization · Emancipation · Eurocentrism · Futures contract · Independence (probability theory · Modernity · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Anthropology · Gender Studies · Indian Economic and Social Development · Indian History and Philosophy · Law · Philosophy · South Asian Studies and Conflicts
Disembodiment
Comparative political theory and Gandhi
Gandhi's search for identity beyond cosmopolitanism and nationalism
States-in-Waiting
Beyond Parliament
Theorizing the destructive moment
The Pedagogical Account of Parliamentarism at India's Founding
Faith-based organizations and religious nationalism
Self-Rule and the Problem of Peoplehood in Colonial India
International Relations, Silent Erasure, and the Cruelty of Caste
The intimate enemy
India's political economy, 1947-1977
Hind Swaraj
The Imaginary Institution of India
The Impossible Indian
The intimate enemy
Secularism, Identity, and Enchantment
The Nation and Its Fragments
Universal Benefit
Secularism, Identity, and Enchantment
On Gandhi's Critique of the State
Gandhi on Democracy, Politics and the Ethics of Everyday Life
Morality in the Shadow of Politics
A Language Which Is Foreign to Us”
The Cambridge Companion to Gandhi
India's Political Economy 1947–1977
What Congress and Gandhi Have Done to the Untouchables
The Social Setting of the Champaran Satyagraha
Nonviolence and Gandhi's truth
Jawaharlal Nehru
Relinquishing republican democracy
Gandhi's Politics
Another Realism
Encountering Development
| Unique citing works | 10 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,67 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2026 (7) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 10 |