Gandhi and the Ali Brothers

Biography of a Friendship
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-93-5388-063-7
Verlag: SAGE Publications

Buch, Englisch, 242 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 316 g

The campaign of the Khilafat Movement and the Ali brothers’ close collaboration with Gandhi are well acknowledged in the pages of history. It is also well known that after the collapse of the Khilafat–Non-cooperation Movement, the relationship between them became strenuous, and the Ali brothers moved away from Gandhi. But what is not so well known is that the promise of the relationship when it was forged was astounding, and Gandhi saw it as a solution to the problem of Hindu-Muslim unity, which he considered fundamental to India’s independence.

This book is a study of the relationship between Gandhi and the Ali brothers mainly in the context of the Non-cooperation and Khilafat Movements, focusing on the period of 1919–1931. Gandhi’s involvement in the Khilafat agitation was his first direct intervention in an exclusively Muslim question, translating it into a national question. This was his way of bringing the Muslims out of their community cocoons into the mainstream of India’s national politics. However, as his relationship with the brothers broke down, this turned out to be also his last such intervention. Consequently, the issue of Muslim participation remained unsettled till Partition.

Gandhi and the Ali Brothers narrates the story of the coming together, the joint struggle and the parting of ways of Gandhi and the Ali brothers. It documents a lucid micro-history of the momentous developments in the personal relations of these political figures, with the dynamics of Hindu-Muslim interface as the backdrop.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Chatterji, Rakhahari

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Geschichtswissenschaft: Theorie und Methoden

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
The Theory: Communitarianism, Multiculturalism and Gandhi
The History
The Characters: The Ali Brothers
'Love at First Sight'
Troubled Alliance
Journey Downhill
End of the Road
Conclusion: Multiculturalism Before Its Time
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Chatterji, Rakhahari
Rakhahari Chatterji was UGC Emeritus Fellow in Political Science at Calcutta University. He has taught Political Science for over 45 years now. He was a visiting faculty in many international universities such as University of Michigan, University of Chicago and University of Virginia. Dr Chatterji was a professor in Political Science and the Dean of the Faculty of Arts, Calcutta University.

He has written and edited around 10 books and over 80 papers, published in various national and international journals and newspapers. His most recent published works are Tulanatmak Rajniti Parichaya (Bengali version of Comparative Political Analysis, 2011), Introduction to Comparative Political Analysis (2010) and Comparative Politics: History, Methods and Approaches (2003). He has also edited Politics India: The State-Society Interface (2009).