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Volume 23, Number 2

Issue 64, Spring 2011

Foreword

Our Gandhi, Our Times
Arjun Appadurai
Guest Editors’ Letter: Itineraries of Self-Rule
Faisal Devji and Ritu Birla

Doxa at Large

The Paradox of Nonviolence
Faisal Devji
The Ethics of Self-Rule: Violence and Masculinity in Contemporary South Africa
Crain Soudien

Dislocation

Violent Texts, Vulnerable Readers: Hind Swaraj and Its South African Audiences
Isabel Hofmeyr
An “Eventful” History of Hind Swaraj: Gandhi between the Battle of Tsushima and the Union of South Africa
Jonathan Hyslop
Gandhi and the Goa Question
Pamila Gupta
Gandhi’s Progressive Disillusionment: Thumbs, Fingers, and the Rejection of Scientific Modernism in Hind Swaraj
Keith Breckenridge

Afterlife

The Case of the Missing Mahatma: Gandhi and the Hindi Cinema
Rachel Dwyer
Hindu Modern: Considering Gandhian Aesthetics
Vyjayanthi Rao
The Tiger’s Nature, but Not the Tiger: Bal Gangadhar Tilak as Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi’s Counter-Guru
Christopher Pinney

Inwardness

Patience, Inwardness, and Self-Knowledge in Gandhi’s Hind Swaraj
Uday S. Mehta
Gandhi before Mahatma: The Foundations of Political Truth
Shruti Kapila
The Ellipsis of Touch: Gandhi’s Unequals
Aishwary Kumar

Coda

Might as Well Face It, We’re Addicted to Gandhi
Ritu Birla

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Volume 23, Number 2 Cover

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Public Culture is a reviewed interdisciplinary journal of cultural studies, published three times a year in Fall, Winter, and Spring for the Institute for Public Knowledge by Duke University Press. The journal's full archives are available online at Dukejournals.org.

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