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- Title
A Critical Analysis of Gadaism in the Light of Chinese Socialism.
- Authors
Ansari, Farrukh Aziz; Abbas, Asifa; Veesrio, Manzoor Ali
- Abstract
The political ideas of Abdul Karim Gadai, a revolutionary resistance poet of the colonial and post-colonial eras of Sindh, have been subject to a shower of conflicting, and often erroneous surmises. Among such ill-informed conjectures is his being identified with the Maoist philosophy or the Chinese version of Socialism. On the face of it, Gadaism seems like having a lot in common with Maoism esp. the former's accent on the class of peasantry. However, as we burrow deeper into it, their convergence begins to dwindle. By posing a hypothesis that dismisses any relationship of Gadai's political thought with the Chinese Socialism, the poetic verses of Gadai Sahab, sifted under purposive sampling, have been put to the extensive scrutiny by means of the qualitative content analysis. The findings of the study reveal that Socialism of the Chinese model has no bearing on Abdul Karim Gadai's credo whatsoever. Gadai Sahab at his best was a resistance poet who protested the perpetuation of the legacy of exclusion bequeathed by the British colonialism calling boldly for a thorough reconfiguration of the society based on socio-economic justice. However, unlike socialism, he preferred the evolutionary constitutional approach to politics in which change hinges entirely on the judicious exercise of ballot by a voter.
- Subjects
POETS; SOCIALISM; MAOISM; PEASANTS; POLITICAL science; MAO, Zedong, 1893-1976
- Publication
Language in India, 2018, Vol 18, Issue 11, p197
- ISSN
1930-2940
- Publication type
Article