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== Reception ==
== Reception ==
Gandhian scholar [[Tridip Suhrud]] praised the work in his review for [[India Today]] magazine.<ref name=":3">{{Cite web|url=https://www.indiatoday.in/magazine/books/story/20150223-death-and-afterlife-mahatma-gandhi-r-paranjape-book-review-817547-2015-02-13|title=Makarand Paranjape makes an inquiry into why we have turned Gandhi's assassination into martyrdo|last1=February 13|first1=Tridip Suhrud|last2=February 23|first2=2015 ISSUE DATE|website=India Today|language=en|access-date=2020-03-04|last3=February 13|first3=2015UPDATED|last4=Ist|first4=2015 14:42}}</ref> Paranjape, according to Suhurd, wishes to scrutiny the memories related to Mahatma Gandhi's assassination and our representations of Mahatma.<ref name=":3" /> "His [Paranjape's] scholastic and impassioned inquiry", Suhrud wrote, "results in a work of immense significance for our understanding of the placement of political assassination in the political culture of India."<ref name=":3" />
Gandhian scholar [[Tridip Suhrud]] praised the work in his review for [[India Today]] magazine.<ref name=":3">{{Cite magazine|url=https://www.indiatoday.in/magazine/books/story/20150223-death-and-afterlife-mahatma-gandhi-r-paranjape-book-review-817547-2015-02-13|title=Makarand Paranjape makes an inquiry into why we have turned Gandhi's assassination into martyrdo|author=Tridip Suhrud |date=February 13, 2015 |magazine=India Today|language=en|access-date=2020-03-04}}</ref> Paranjape, according to Suhurd, wishes to scrutiny the memories related to Mahatma Gandhi's assassination and our representations of Mahatma.<ref name=":3" /> "His [Paranjape's] scholastic and impassioned inquiry", Suhrud wrote, "results in a work of immense significance for our understanding of the placement of political assassination in the political culture of India."<ref name=":3" />


Sukumar Muralidharan, fellow at [[Indian Institute of Advanced Study]], reviewed the book for [[Business Line]].<ref name=":1" /> According to him, author "successfully established the particularity of the stigma in parricide in the Hindu context, excavating the epics to argue that it remains a rarity."<ref name=":1" /> "In the face of brazen celebrations," Muralidharan wrote, "of Gandhi’s assassination at the public stage today, scholar Makarand Paranjape’s book puts the leader back on a place that is his alone."<ref name=":1" />
Sukumar Muralidharan, fellow at [[Indian Institute of Advanced Study]], reviewed the book for [[Business Line]].<ref name=":1" /> According to him, author "successfully established the particularity of the stigma in parricide in the Hindu context, excavating the epics to argue that it remains a rarity."<ref name=":1" /> "In the face of brazen celebrations," Muralidharan wrote, "of Gandhi’s assassination at the public stage today, scholar Makarand Paranjape’s book puts the leader back on a place that is his alone."<ref name=":1" />

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The Death and Afterlife of Mahatma Gandhi
AuthorMakarand Paranjape
CountryIndia
LanguageIndian English

The Death and Afterlife of Mahatma Gandhi is a 2014 non-fiction book by Indian writer Makarand Paranjape and published by Penguin Random House.[1][2][3] The book is based on the analysis of Assassination of Mahatma Gandhi and the situations after his assassination.[4]

Publication[edit | edit source]

The book is written by the author and professor Makarand R Paranjape and it is published by Penguin Random House, India. Book contains 331 pages.[1]

Reception[edit | edit source]

Gandhian scholar Tridip Suhrud praised the work in his review for India Today magazine.[5] Paranjape, according to Suhurd, wishes to scrutiny the memories related to Mahatma Gandhi's assassination and our representations of Mahatma.[5] "His [Paranjape's] scholastic and impassioned inquiry", Suhrud wrote, "results in a work of immense significance for our understanding of the placement of political assassination in the political culture of India."[5]

Sukumar Muralidharan, fellow at Indian Institute of Advanced Study, reviewed the book for Business Line.[4] According to him, author "successfully established the particularity of the stigma in parricide in the Hindu context, excavating the epics to argue that it remains a rarity."[4] "In the face of brazen celebrations," Muralidharan wrote, "of Gandhi’s assassination at the public stage today, scholar Makarand Paranjape’s book puts the leader back on a place that is his alone."[4]

Chirosree Basu, over a review in Telegraph India, wrote that Paranjape "undoubtedly made a path-breaking study in an area that was thought to have been done to death".[6] He added that author forces the reader to look at the assassination and what does it symbolise.[6] However, according to Basu, Paranjape's work seems to be unnecessary exploration of "Schizoanalysis" and author gives back-handed advantage to the Godse's followers and deluded souls.[6]

Bureau of Free Press Journal wrote that author used previously unseen historical documents to reconstruct Gandhi's assassination.[7] It added that author has sought to look into the fuller ramifications of Gandhi's death.[7] Dilip Simeon, writing for the Indian Express, compared Mahatma Gandhi's life as compass and how to use it is on us. Additionally, he wrote that Paranjape courageously took the efforts to present it before us.[8] "Given Paranjape’s call for truthfulness," wrote Simeon, "the Sangh’s violent activities required attention."[8]

References[edit | edit source]

  1. 1.0 1.1 "Book review: Mahatma Gandhi's killing was an act of Love Jihad". The Indian Express. 2016-05-06. Retrieved 2020-03-04.
  2. "8 Books on Mahatma Gandhi every Indian should read". The Times of India. 2019-10-01. Retrieved 2020-03-04.
  3. "In the Name of the Father". The Indian Express. 2015-04-04. Retrieved 2020-03-04.
  4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 Muralidharan, Sukumar. "Mahatma lives on". @businessline. Retrieved 2020-03-04.
  5. 5.0 5.1 5.2 Tridip Suhrud (February 13, 2015). "Makarand Paranjape makes an inquiry into why we have turned Gandhi's assassination into martyrdo". India Today. Retrieved 2020-03-04.
  6. 6.0 6.1 6.2 "The ghost who still walks". www.telegraphindia.com. Retrieved 2020-03-04.
  7. 7.0 7.1 "The Death and Afterlife of Mahatma Gandhi". Free Press Journal. Retrieved 2020-03-04.
  8. 8.0 8.1 "In the Name of the Father". The Indian Express. 2015-04-04. Retrieved 2020-03-04.