Indian Home Rule or Hind Swaraj: Gandhi’s Experiment with Translation
Abstract
Hind Swaraj is the seed text and the only auto/self translation by Gandhi. Originally written and published in Gujarati in the Gujarati columns of Indian Opinion 11th and 18th Dec., 1909 is ‘hurriedly dictated’ and ‘not a literal translation but it is faithful rendering of the original’ (Preface to English Translation). The decolonizing text written and translated by the decolonized mind has drawn the attention of many a critics and translators during last hundred years. The compulsion with Gandhi to translate Hind Swaraj and the attempts to revise the translation draws our attention to the processes involved in translation resulting in a close reading of the powerful political text.
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