Modernism and the Idea of India: The Art of Passive Resistance

by Judith Brown

In his 1909 manifesto Hind Swaraj, Gandhi made an impassioned call for passive resistance that he soon retracted. 'Passive resistance' didn't, in the end, serve his overarching aims, but was troubled on multiple grounds from its use of the English phrase to the weakness implied by passivity. Modernism and the Idea of India: The Art of Passive Resistance claims that the difficulty embedded in the phrase 'passive resistance', from its seeming internal...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1009505246
• ISBN13: 9781009505246
• Release Date: December 2024
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 210 Pages