Walking from Dandi
In Search of Vikas
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ISBN:
9780192856012
Publication date:
25/05/2022
Hardback
320 pages
260x160mm
Price: 1495.00 INR
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ISBN:
9780192856012
Publication date:
25/05/2022
Hardback
320 pages
Harmony Siganporia
This book is multi and cross-disciplinary, blending archival and ethnographic elements in its design: it is based on an actual walk across Gujarat, which complements, questions, and ultimately tries to further the scope of the historiographical treatment with which the Dandi March as an event has long been analysed and treated by scholars and activists.,Given that what happens in Gujarat - the Gujarat 'model', with vikas as its most touted plank - plays itself out on the national stage with striking regularity, the need to investigate this largely nebulous notion is now paramount. That is precisely what this book sets out to do.,It attempts to tell the story of modern Gujarat by tracing the transition from swaraj to vikas.
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Harmony Siganporia
Description
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 competing 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.
About the author
Harmony Siganporia, Associate Professor of Culture and Communication, MICA, Ahmedabad
Harmony Siganporia is an Associate Professor of Culture and Communication at MICA, Ahmedabad.
Harmony Siganporia
Table of contents
Foreword
Introduction
What we talk about when we talk about (him) walking
The F/act of Gandhian Walks
Walking: Tracing the Contours of a Semiosphere
Field-notes, or Walking all this talk
Conclusion
Afterword
Harmony Siganporia
Description
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 competing 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.
About the author
Harmony Siganporia, Associate Professor of Culture and Communication, MICA, Ahmedabad
Harmony Siganporia is an Associate Professor of Culture and Communication at MICA, Ahmedabad.
Table of contents
Foreword
Introduction
What we talk about when we talk about (him) walking
The F/act of Gandhian Walks
Walking: Tracing the Contours of a Semiosphere
Field-notes, or Walking all this talk
Conclusion
Afterword
Christopher Smith
Geraldine Pinch
Alan Knight
John Robertson
Robert C. Allen
Kenneth Morgan
Jane Caplan
Karen Radner
Heather Clark
Hugh Bowden
