

The Autobiographer in Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi’s The Story of My Experiments with Truth. Narayan Desai Recalls the Creation of the Mahatma’s Biography.

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The Scene of Translation: After Jakobson, Benjamin, de Man, and Derrida. On Translating Homer: Three Lectures Given at Oxford. 140–143) while a more detailed treatment of the movement and Gandhi’s stance towards it can be found in Nanda ( 2002).Īrnold, M. For a succinct summary of Gandhi’s complex involvement in what became known as the Khilafat Movement, see Brown ( 1989, pp. O’Dwyer’s report would, Gandhi maintained, “enable the reader to see to what lengths the British Government is capable of going, and what inhumanities and barbarities it is capable of perpetrating in order to maintain its power” ( An Auto, p. Gandhi’s reaction to Sir Michael O’Dwyer’s report into the Jallianwala Bagh shootings, as voiced in his autobiography, evidences his newly vociferous anti-British sentiments. Commonly known as the ‘Amritsar Massacre’, in which the British Army killed an estimated 1000 unarmed Indians gathered in peaceful protest in the Jallianwala Bagh gardens in Amritsar in the Punjab in 1919, this event is largely considered the turning point in Gandhi’s attitude towards the British (see for example Green, 1993, p.
