Vol. 74, Supplemento No. 1-2: The «Gandhians» of Bengal. Nationalism, Social Reconstruction and Cultural Orientations 1920-1942
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Acknowledgements 3 Note on transliteration 4 Abbreviations 5 Introduction 7 1. The fragmented tradition of Bengal 17 1.1 Environment and society 17 1.2 An imperfect caste system within a variety of socio-religious forms 21 2. British colonialism and Bengali bhadralok 31 2.1. Implanting a metropolis: Calcutta and its inhabitants 31 2.2. Revolution in the countryside 38 2.3. From social reform to nationalism 41 2.4. Neo-Hinduism and Muslim orthodoxy 47 2.5. The search for a secular identity 53 2.6. The Bengali bābu and the age of Swadeshi 57 2.7. Prafulla Chandra Ray and his criticism of bābu society 62 3. Gandhi, his personality and practice, his approach to Bengali culture 69 3.1. Intellectual and cultural background 69 3.2. Social involvement 74 3.3. The Mahatma in nationalist politics 79 3.4. Bengal as seen by Gandhi 84 4. Gandhi, the «Gandhi-ites» and Nationalist Politics in Bengal, 1920-1942 95 4.1. Preparing for non-cooperation 96 4.2. C. R. Das and nationalist politics in the early 1920s 109 4.3. The difficult predicament of the «Gandhian» leadership 117 4.4. Civil Disobedience and decline 134 4.5. Gandhi against Bose: crisis in BPCC-AICC relationship in the 1940s 141 4.6. The diverging path of the Muslim political leadership 154 5. Science and yajña in village reconstruction: S. C. Das Gupta & the Khadi Pratisthan 163 5.1. Satish Chandra Das Gupta. A bhadralok and an outsider 163 5.2. Early experiments with khadi and «conversion » to Gandhi's reconstruction programme 167 5.3. Early activity of the Khadi Pratisthan 173 5.4. Working for Mahatma Gandhi 181 5.5. The karmayogī's progress 185 5.6. Participation in Bengal politics 192 5.7. In full swing: Rāṣṭra-bāṇī and the Rastriya Sangha 201 5.8. Satish Das Gupta's social thinking 212 5.9. Helping the weak: experiences in harijan work 218 5.10. Yajña: Service as sacrifice 224 6. The Abhay Asram. Desh seva and rural reconstruction 233 6.1. Origins of the Abhay Asram 233 6.2. The maṭh: genesis of an ideal 238 6.3. The meeting with Gandhi and the birth of the Abhay Asram 242 6.4. Political campaigns and social involvement 246 6.5. Expansion and con-troversy: Abhay Asram's relations with Khadi Pratisthan 252 6.6. Suresh Banerji from Civil Disobedience to Socialism 259 6.7. Prafulla Ghosh's approach to Gandhi 267 7. Distinctive features of the constructive movement in Bengal 277 7.1. Minor ashrams 277 7.2. Achievements and faults of the constructive movement in Bengal 285 8. Mahatma Gandhi and Bengali intellectuals 299 8.1. Gandhi and Tagore between tradition and modernity 299 8.2. Inquiring minds-1: Nirmal Kumar Bose 312 8.3 . Inquiring minds-2: Benoy Kumar Sarkar, 317 8.4. Bengali sensibility, Gandhi and the «Gandhians»: idealism, satire and sympathy 320 Bibliography 333 Index 353
