Abstract
This chapter explores India’s social and political landscape via Gandhi’s representation in Indian artworks. Examining the various facets of the relationship between Gandhi and his mass followers in Indian paintings, this chapter foregrounds the close symbiotic connection between art and socio-political ethos of a given historical moment. Focusing on visualization of Gandhi in art, this chapter studies Gandhi’s artistic representation in three stages – Gandhi’s trajectory as a political leader spanning from the 1920s to 1940s, Gandhi’s visual figuration in post-independence India (1950s to 1980s), and the artistic engagement with disruptions of the Gandhian values from the 1990s onwards.
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