Fw: H-ASIA; Gandhi racist and bisexual? How book reviews can distort the book (comment)

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Subject: H-ASIA; Gandhi racist and bisexual? How book reviews can distort
the book (comment)

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> March 30, 2011
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> Comment on Gandhi racist and bisexual? How book reviews can distort the
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> From: Ananya Vajpeyi <ananya.vajpeyi@gmail.com>
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> The real culprit I suspect is neither Lelyveld's book nor the Daily Mail's
> sudden mandate as a forum for book reviews, but this rather fanciful piece
> below:
>
> http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703529004576160371482469358.h
> tml
>
> I don't think scholars of modern India, Indian nationalism or Gandhi's
> life
> and work have to take any of this nonsense seriously. It's interesting
> that
> even 63 years after Gandhi's death, some people have trouble accepting the
> fact that frail, abstinent, celibate and eccentric though he might have
> been, he managed to bring an end to the British Empire in India, South
> Africa and the world. Colonialism's apologists and imperialism's
> revivalists
> can malign, besmirch and fabricate all they like; the fact is, the sun
> set,
> and the ship sailed. Goodbye Britannia, and good riddance -- as we say, in
> English.
>
> Yours,
>
> AV.
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> Ananya Vajpeyi, Ph.D.
> Assistant Professor of History
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