Gandhian Ideals in Indian Literature

Abstract

Gandhiji is such a socio-political figure who is barely impossible for someone to forget or ignore. He has influenced every aspect of human consciousness and there is hardly any discipline that he has left uncommented. He is an immense source of writing himself and influenced different disciplines and many writers from different fields like history, politics, philosophy, literature, sociology etc. Gandhiji insisted on simple living and high thinking which was also reflected and highlighted by the literary English authors of the time, mainly Raja Rao, Mulk Raj Anand, R.K.Narayan, who in their novels, portrayed the magical influence of Gandhiji. In Indian writings in English from within the homeland, both Gandhi and Gandhism have undergone semantic alterations, redefining Gandhiji’s relationship with the domestic imagination.