Partha chatterjee biography of mahatma gandhi

book by Colonel G. B. Singh

Gandhi: Behind the Mask of Divinity is a book by United States Army officer G.

B. Singh.

”27 Partha Chatterjee, for his part, believes that Gandhi would have enshrined the state with a titular head.

Partha Chatterjee (b.

Partha Chatterjee () launched a very strong critique of Gandhi.

So it is necessary to retrace from Chatterjee's fixing of Gandhi as contributor to nationalism to seeing him as the one contesting nationalism, and take the.

Present positions: Honorary Professor of Political Science, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences,.

The book was written in biographical form nearly 60 years after the assassination of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, and challenges his image as a saintly, benevolent, and pacifistic leader of Indian independence, told through Gandhi's own writings and actions over the course of his life.

The book claims that Gandhi emulated racism from the Hindu ideology of caste towards the blacks of South Africa and the Untouchables, instigated ethnic hatred against foreign communities, and, to this end, was involved in covering up the killing of American engineer William Francis Doherty.

Singh puts forward that the portrayal of Gandhi as a great leader is "the work of the Hindu propaganda machine" and Christian clergy with ulterior motives; and, furthermore, it was based on irrationality and deception which historians have failed to criti