“The Kukkura-Jātaka,” M.K. Gandhi and Intizar Husain: Ancient Buddhism Writes Back (and Forth)
In the “Kukkura-Jātaka,” the Buddha, in a previous incarnation as a dog, saves his fellow-dogs from extermination through nonviolence (ahiṃsā). I analyse the “Kukkura” as a Buddhist multidirectional “writing back and forth” vis-à-vis Brahmanist discourse. M.K. Gandhi’s justification of the killing o...
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Postcolonial Literatures and Arts
2025
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| Acesso em linha: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Resumo: | In the “Kukkura-Jātaka,” the Buddha, in a previous incarnation as a dog, saves his fellow-dogs from extermination through nonviolence (ahiṃsā). I analyse the “Kukkura” as a Buddhist multidirectional “writing back and forth” vis-à-vis Brahmanist discourse. M.K. Gandhi’s justification of the killing of dogs in a series of articles in Navajivan can be read as a modern exegesis on the “Kukkura” that writes back to indigenous orthodoxy. Finally, rewriting the “Kukkura” in a post-partition context enables Intizar Husain to short-circuit Hindu and Muslim sectarian historiography altogether via Buddhist hagiography. |
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