Body As The Site of Reform and Swaraj for Gandhi
Journal Title: International Journal of Interdisciplinary and Multidisciplinary Studies (IJIMS) - Year 2017, Vol 4, Issue 2
Abstract
The following paper attempts to understand the politics of and on the body by looking into the practices of Gandhi during the national movement. By focusing our attention on the body of Gandhi, we can be equipped better to deal with the salient aspects of nationalist project as whole. The body serves as an important point of analysis because in the modern discourse the body of individuals is at the centre of exercise of power. Body then as such is not an isolated category rather it gets constantly manipulated to make it docile, efficient and economic through constant supervision and coercion. The analysis of certain practices of somaticity in Gandhi such as celibacy, diet and health reform can help us understand what it means to train the body in a certain manner. The paper explores the link that exists between the body of an individual with the nation and how the aspect of sovereignty should be present in both the body and the nation. The focus of the paper is to introspect how the idea of body was reworked by Gandhi as the site of reform and struggle against colonialism. The nature of Gandhi’s politics and moral philosophy was deeply ingrained in his own bodily practices, therefore an investigation of the body to begin with should help us make better sense of Gandhi and the nationalist project as a whole. Apart from a political and philosophical idea, swaraj was also a metabolic principle for Gandhi, and we must adopt a lens that takes into account this dynamics of embodiment while seeking to understand Gandhi.
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Nitika Ladda
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