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M.K. Gandhi, Media, Politics and SocietyGandhi in August 1947: Self-Fashioning, Print Culture and the Republic of Letters

M.K. Gandhi, Media, Politics and Society: Gandhi in August 1947: Self-Fashioning, Print Culture... [This chapter examines how the Gandhi iconography is first constructed and then deployed among the largely urban readers of English-language newspapers in India during August 1947 by two mainstream newspapers: Hindustan Times and the Statesman. The daily reportage on Gandhi attempted to keep his towering persona and revolutionary ideology alive for an often unheeding public that seemed to ignore his lifelong message of peace derived from a richly syncretic culture. The rapidly unfolding events on the eve of independence and after reflected a time out of joint in which even the Mahatma could be sometimes traduced and disrespected.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

M.K. Gandhi, Media, Politics and SocietyGandhi in August 1947: Self-Fashioning, Print Culture and the Republic of Letters

Part of the Palgrave Studies in the History of the Media Book Series
Editors: Kaul, Chandrika
Sharma, Anjana
M.K. Gandhi, Media, Politics and Society — Dec 11, 2020
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Publisher
Springer International Publishing
Copyright
© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
ISBN
978-3-030-59034-5
Pages
127 –142
DOI
10.1007/978-3-030-59035-2_8
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Abstract

[This chapter examines how the Gandhi iconography is first constructed and then deployed among the largely urban readers of English-language newspapers in India during August 1947 by two mainstream newspapers: Hindustan Times and the Statesman. The daily reportage on Gandhi attempted to keep his towering persona and revolutionary ideology alive for an often unheeding public that seemed to ignore his lifelong message of peace derived from a richly syncretic culture. The rapidly unfolding events on the eve of independence and after reflected a time out of joint in which even the Mahatma could be sometimes traduced and disrespected.]

Published: Dec 11, 2020

Keywords: Print culture; Representation; Public sphere

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