Walking from Dandi: In search of vikas / Harmony Siganporia

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Siganporia, Harmony, author.

Series:

Oxford Academic

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dandi March--Indian Nationalist Movement.

Dandi March.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (321 pages)

Edition:

First Edition

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2022

Summary:

In February 2019, Harmony Siganporia walked from Dandi to Ahmedabad, retracing the route of Gandhi's Salt March in reverse. She walked this route of just under 400 kilometres over 25 days, much as Gandhi and the original band of Marchers did in 1930. The 'Dandi Path' is the setting against which she explores the story of modern Gujarat, tracing the contours of the State's seismic shift towards espousing the narrative of vikas, abandoning in the process the possibility of a quest for swaraj. Gujarat has been described as the laboratory of Hindutva, and this book is an effort to explore this theme, even as it attempts to unearth whether there remain any contesting epistemes to it; memories of the region's prior avatar as the setting against which Gandhi put into practice his experiments with truth, non-violent civil disobedience, and satyagraha. This project investigates what-if anything-remains of the Salt March in Gujarat's cultural memory, while also attempting to fill out the contours of the 'single story' of vikas with which the State has become so closely associated.

Contents:

Contents: Acknowledgements - Foreword - Part I - Introduction, or - 1. What We Talk About When We Talk About (Him) Walking - 2. The F/act of Gandhian Walks - 3. Walking: Tracing the Contours of a Semiosphere - Part II - Field-Notes, or: Walking All This Talk - 4. From Salt to Sugarcane (#namaktoganna)-Or, Something is Rotten in the State of Gujarat - 5. From Sugarcane to Cotton (or Surat to Bharuch) - 6. Tobacco Land - 7. Aslali-Ahmedabad - Conclusion (But Not Really: The Conundrum of a Walk That Keeps on Walking Its Walkers) - Afterword - Bibliography - Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version: Siganporia, Harmony Walking from Dandi

ISBN:

0-19-194635-4

0-19-266863-3

OCLC:

1336404113