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Posted: 01 Jul 2023

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India a Nation! What an apothesis! Last comer to the drab nineteenth century sisterhood! Waddling in at this hour of the world to take her seat! She, whose only peer was the Holy Roman Empire, she shall rank with Guatemala and Belgium perhaps! ~ E. M. Foster "a Passage to India"

Image: ”Gandhiji ki Svargyatra” [ “Ghandhi’s Heavenly Journey” ] painting by Narottam Narayan Sharma, 1948 (With Thanks to M.L. Garg and Christopher Pinney)

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On September 20, 1933, the day Anne Besant died, the Bombay Stock Exchange stopped trading in morning for her, and universities, schools, and officers closed for the afternoon, as eulogies poured in from Gandhi and other luminaries, even those who had disagreed with her. A man who had, as a twelve-year-old boy, attended her lectures and felt compelled to join the Theosophical Society at the precocious age interrupted a speech to pay her tribute: he was Jawharlal Nehru, now one of India foremost politicians. - 268

In ‘Gandhiji’s Journey to Heaven’ a painting by the artist Narottam Narayan Sharma, the Mahatma commands a celestial chariot drawn by swans with the intensity of a fighter pilot. He shoots beams of beatitude from his palms onto the receiving heads of Nehru and his deputy, Sardar Patel. Other images that circulated in the wake of Gandhi’s death showed a muscular Mahatma tearing upon his chest to reveal the godhead within. On January 31, 1948, the god of nonviolence was given a military funeral. Only days earlier, Gandhi had called for the Congress to disband; now the party organized the Mahatma’s cremation, and used it to consolidate its grasp on power, in a ceremony that drew heavily on British pomp. Overlaid with flowers, Gandhi’s body was borne on a carriage accompanied by four thousand soldiers in uniform, regiments of paratroopers, Rajaputana Rifles, and Gurkhas, to the sound of a blown conch shell. Seated beside the sacrosanct body of the Mahatma was Prime Minister Nehru, in a supreme display of state authority. . . . . Page 280

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