Mahatoma as National Hero

该项目旨在将甘地定位为印度民族主义运动中的民族英雄，以及20世纪印度流行的建国环境中的精神领袖圣雄甘地(伟大的灵魂)。从我的文章《甘地--人民之神，国父》(1999)开始，我做了以下工作来了解印度的过去和现在，这些过去和现在一直牢牢地建立在甘地政治的意识形态和制度之上。(1)对大众政治学术前沿的挑战：我研究了政治学家几乎不研究的大众政治领域：进行实地研究，收集档案材料，并质疑比较政治学的框架。在德里和印度北部进行了一次短暂但非常富有成效的研究之旅，以了解今天普通人的政治意识。我的文章《暴乱的政治进程：孟买，1992-93年》(2001)和《妇女与民主：印度的实验》(2003)是这项工作的直接结果。(2)印度政治的重新评估：在当代关于印度民族主义的辩论中，甘地及其时代是主要目标。我的文章《印度的思想》(2003年)旨在从本世纪头十年的角度重新评价甘地民族主义。《克什米尔：在国家形成的边缘》是另一个。(3)在这三年里，性别研究出人意料地吸引了我去发现甘地及其非暴力思想的意义。我的文章有四篇：《世界政治的形成》(2000)、《妇女与民主》(2003)、《南亚的性别与武装冲突》(2002)和《论萨蒂》(2002)。甘地追求和平共处与冲突解决的思想和实践，对今天的女权主义与和平研究无疑是重要的。

This project aimed to situate M. K. Gandhi as a national hero in Indian nationalist movements as well as a spiritual charisma, Mahatma (Great Soul), in the popular milieu of nation-making in 20^<th> century India. Starting from my article, 'Gandhi-God of People, Father of Nation' (1999), I have done the following works to understand the past and the present of India, which used to be firmly based on the ideology and institutions of Gandhian politics.(1) Challenge to the Academic Frontier of Popular Politics : I tackled the field of popular politics which was hardly studies by political scientists : conducting field research, collecting archival materials and questioning frameworks of comparative politics. A short but very fruitful research trip was done in Delhi and Northern India to come to know the political consciousness of ordinary people today. My articles of 'The Political Process of Riots : Bombay, 1992-93' (2001) and 'Women and Democracy : the Experiment of India' (2003) are direct results of this work.(2) Re-evaluation of Indian Politics : In the contemporary debates on Indian nationalism, Gandhi and his age is the primary target. My article, 'The Idea of India' (2003), is meant to re-evaluate Gandhian nationalism from the eyes of 2000s. 'Kashmir : At the Edge of State-Formation' is another.(3) During these three years, gender studies have surprisingly attracted me to find the significance of Gandhi and his ideas of non-violence. There are four articles of mine : 'Engendering World Polities' (2000), "Women and Democracy' (2003), 'Gender and Armed Conflicts in South Asia'(2002), and 'On Sati (2002). The idea and practice of Gandhi, pursuing peaceful coexistence and conflict resolution, will be definitely important to feminist and peace studies today.