“Is Gandhi the hero?”: A Reappraisal of Gandhi’s Views about Women in Deepa Mehta’s Water
<p>Set in 1938 against the backdrop of India’s anti-colonial movement led by Gandhi, the film <em>Water</em> (2005) by Deepa Mehta crudely exposes one of the most demeaning aspects of the patriarchal ideology of Hinduism: the custom of condemning widows to a life of self-denial and...
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Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
2021-04-01
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| Series: | Indialogs: Spanish Journal of India Studies |
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| Online Access: | https://revistes.uab.cat/indialogs/article/view/178 |