Gandhi - culture et politique

On the interplay between MN Roy and Gandhi : Sudipta Kaviraj dans Pantham & Deustch, 299 :

Surely, Roy exaggerated Gandhi's indigenism [as reactionary]. Behind his indigenism was ... Gandhi's politics were formed of an irreducible combination of cultural and political strategies--in which what you do and the way you do it are inextricably mixed-- which resisted analysis into its elements.

Subtlety of a culture, Indian culture one of inflection, 'has an enormous repertoire of gestures symbolizing actions, from insult to defiance, gestures of great subtlety and inflection. ... Gandhi's political style consciously tried to gather up these elements from all aspects of Indian life, in which their effectiveness has been tried for centuries, and apply them to the untried field of politics'. 229.
Its irrationalities carefully thought out.
Political style. His alphabet of political action.
'Surely, a part of G's critique of colonial culture was a deliberate counter position of Westernized crudeness with an inherently subtle indigenous style, a cultural style which does not give an account or justification of what it is doing in the other's terms.'
'The way in which G used political discourse' ('was fundamentally different from the normal rationalist way of looking at it.')
Created a political culture which... 230. ('prediscursive' ways, immediate message of authenticity)

Cf biblio sur études de Gandhi, Ashis Nandy, Partha Chattejee & Pantham 228.

// 'Roy systematically underestimated the power of cultural elements in politics, which was merely the obverse of his belief in the effectiveness of economic revolutions.' 230.