Raghuramaraju, Department of Philosophy, University of Hyderabad Within the framework of the Hindi novel, traverses varied terrains: the Hindi literary public sphere, and contemporary Indian philosophy and historiography.’ - A. ‘learly stated, elegantly presented and closely argued. The book may not always persuade but is no less stimulating for that reason.’ - Harish Trivedi, Department of English, University of Delhi It demonstrates how nationalist political freedom was often seen by Hindi and Bengali novelists as a corollary of private sexual freedom, and deploys the resolutely non-violent and abstinent Gandhi as an admonitory measuring-rod. ‘This book takes a sensitive, sophisticated, and occasionally startling look at select literary representations of the figure of the armed fighter for Indian freedom - a "revolutionary" for us and a "terrorist" for the British.
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