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M.K. Gandhi, Media, Politics and SocietyThe Global Gandhi of the Muslim Vernacular Press: Mahatma as Monumental Peasant and the Prophetic Rose in the Urdu Pamphlets of an Early Twentieth-Century Delhi Sufi

M.K. Gandhi, Media, Politics and Society: The Global Gandhi of the Muslim Vernacular Press:... [The pamphlets of journalist, Urdu writer and Sufi leader Hasan Nizami (1873–1955) on Gandhi are strikingly similar to Gandhi’s own publishing and anti-colonial ‘experiments in slow reading’ (Hofmyer). This chapter makes the argument that Nizami’s long-overlooked cosmopolitan vision created an important alternative to nationalist versions of an emergent ‘Mahatma’. Nizami’s experimental press thus offered his Muslim and non-Muslim readership Islamicate frames for Gandhian nonviolence and continues to challenge us to rethink religion, print and the nation.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

M.K. Gandhi, Media, Politics and SocietyThe Global Gandhi of the Muslim Vernacular Press: Mahatma as Monumental Peasant and the Prophetic Rose in the Urdu Pamphlets of an Early Twentieth-Century Delhi Sufi

Part of the Palgrave Studies in the History of the Media Book Series
Editors: Kaul, Chandrika
Dobe, Timothy S.
M.K. Gandhi, Media, Politics and Society — Dec 11, 2020
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Springer International Publishing
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© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
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978-3-030-59034-5
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43 –60
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10.1007/978-3-030-59035-2_4
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Abstract

[The pamphlets of journalist, Urdu writer and Sufi leader Hasan Nizami (1873–1955) on Gandhi are strikingly similar to Gandhi’s own publishing and anti-colonial ‘experiments in slow reading’ (Hofmyer). This chapter makes the argument that Nizami’s long-overlooked cosmopolitan vision created an important alternative to nationalist versions of an emergent ‘Mahatma’. Nizami’s experimental press thus offered his Muslim and non-Muslim readership Islamicate frames for Gandhian nonviolence and continues to challenge us to rethink religion, print and the nation.]

Published: Dec 11, 2020

Keywords: Cosmopolitanism; Islamicate; Nationalism; Sufism; Urdu

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