176 Pages
by
Routledge
186 Pages
by
Routledge
176 Pages
by
Routledge
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Gandhi’s use of the spinning wheel was one of the most significant unifying elements of the nationalist movement in India. Spinning was seen as an economic and political activity that could bring together the diverse population of South Asia, and allow the formerly elite nationalist movement to connect to the broader Indian population.
This book looks at the politics of spinning both as a... Read more
Introduction - Spinning, Anticolonial Nationalism, and the Visual 1. Action and Identity: Colonial Representations of Spinning 2. Capturing the Wheel in Motion: Photography and Spinning 3. Discovering Spinning: Towards Gandhi's Visual Rhetoric 4. Gender and the Modern Charkha 5. National Symbols: Gandhi and the Spinning Wheel
Biography
Rebecca M. Brown is visiting Associate Professor in Political Science and the History of Art at Johns Hopkins University, US, researching colonial and post-independence in South Asia. Her publications include Art for a Modern India, 1947–1980 (2009) and Asian Art (co-edited with Deborah S. Hutton, 2006).
