Mahatma Gandhi in Poems of Jhaverchand Meghani: A Retrospective Study

Abstract

Mahatma Gandhi emerged as one very important political figure in the beginning of 20th century but his influence was not limited to one strata of Indian life. On one hand entire Gujarat was chanting the mantra of Satyagraha and non-cooperation, the litterateurs of Gujarat were deeply influenced by the life and ideology of Mahatma Gandhi where Jhaverchand Meghani is not an exception. The poet, one of the most popular of the era, also wrote some remarkable poems on the person himself i.e. Mahatma Gandhi, while there were many which reverberated the ideology. Present paper endeavours to critically examine these poems originally written in Gujarati language by Jhaverchand Meghani with retrospection to contemporary poetical and sociological milieu.