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|name=Leela Gandhi<br />
|birth_date={{birth year and age|1966}}<br />
|birth_place=[[Mumbai]], India<br />
|discipline=Cultural and literary theory<br />
|school_tradition=Postcolonial<br />
|workplaces={{unbulleted list|[[Brown University]]|[[Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women|Pembroke Center]]|[[University of Chicago]]}}<br />
|parents=[[Ramchandra Gandhi]]<br />
|education={{unbulleted list|[[Hindu College, Delhi]]|[[Balliol College, Oxford]]}}}}<br />
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'''Leela Gandhi''' (born 1966) is a noted academic in the field of [[postcolonial theory]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Leela Gandhi speaks on postcolonial ethics in first Humanities Lecture|url=https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2010/04/leela-gandhi-speaks-postcolonial-ethics|access-date=2021-09-21|website=Cornell Chronicle|language=en}}</ref> She is currently the John Hawkes Professor of Humanities and English and director of the [[Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women]] at [[Brown University]].<ref>Leela Gandhi's [https://vivo.brown.edu/display/lgandhi Research Profile] at [[Brown University]]</ref><ref>[https://news.brown.edu/new-faculty/humanities/leela-gandhi New Faculty], News from Brown</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Amesur|first=Akshay|date=2021-09-10|title=Pembroke Center endowed with $5 million donation, welcomes new director|url=https://www.browndailyherald.com/2021/09/10/pembroke-center-endowed-with-5-million-donation-welcomes-new-director/|access-date=2021-09-21|website=Brown Daily Herald|language=en-US}}</ref><br />
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Gandhi previously taught at the [[University of Chicago]], [[La Trobe University]], and the [[University of Delhi]]. She is a founding co-editor of the academic journal ''[[Postcolonial Studies (journal)|Postcolonial Studies]]'', and she serves on the editorial board of the electronic journal ''[[Postcolonial Text]]''.<ref>[http://postcolonial.org/index.php/pct/about/editorialTeam Postcolonial Text] ISSN 1705-9100.</ref> She is a Senior Fellow of the [[School of Criticism and Theory]] at [[Cornell University]].<ref>[http://sct.cornell.edu/people/senior-fellows/ Senior Fellows] at the [[School of Criticism and Theory]]</ref><br />
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== Early life and education ==<br />
Gandhi was born in [[Mumbai]] and is the daughter of the late Indian philosopher [[Ramchandra Gandhi]] and the great-granddaughter of the [[Indian Independence movement]] leader [[Mahatma Gandhi]].<ref>IndiaPost.com: [http://indiapost.com/article/india/514/ President, PM condole death of Ramachandra Gandhi] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071220154006/http://indiapost.com/article/india/514/ |date=2007-12-20 }} Wednesday, 06.20.2007</ref> She has offered analysis that some of Mahatma Gandhi's philosophies (on nonviolence and vegetarianism, for example) and policies were influenced by [[Transnationalism|transnational]] as well as indigenous sources.<ref>As recounted in the notes on the [[Australian National University]] Humanities Research Center's conference [http://www.anu.edu.au/hrc/conferences/conference_archive/2004/Gandhi_Report.php Gandhi, Non-Violence and Modernity]</ref> She received her undergraduate degree from [[Hindu College, Delhi]] and her doctorate was from [[Balliol College, Oxford]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://english.uchicago.edu/faculty/gandhi |title=University of Chicago, Department of English faculty Web page |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100609234037/http://english.uchicago.edu/faculty/gandhi |archive-date=2010-06-09}}</ref><br />
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She is also the great-granddaughter of [[C. Rajagopalachari]]. Her paternal grandfather [[Devdas Gandhi]] was the youngest son of Mahatma Gandhi and her paternal grandmother Lakshmi was the daughter of [[C. Rajagopalachari]].<br />
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== Reviews and critiques ==<br />
With the publication of her first book ''Postcolonial Theory: A Critical Introduction'' in 1998, Gandhi was described as mapping "the field in terms of its wider philosophical and intellectual context, drawing important connections between postcolonial theory and [[poststructuralism]], [[postmodernism]], [[Marxism]] and [[feminism]]."<ref>Gandhi, Leela. ''Postcolonial Theory: A Critical Introduction''. Columbia University Press:1998 {{ISBN|0-231-11273-4}}. Back cover</ref><br />
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Her next book, ''Affective Communities'', was written to "[reveal] for the first time how those associated with marginalized lifestyles, subcultures, and traditions—including [[homosexuality]], [[vegetarianism]], [[animal rights]], [[spiritualism]], and [[aestheticism]]—united against [[imperialism]] and forged strong bonds with [[colonialism|colonized]] subjects and cultures".<ref>Gandhi, Leela, ''Affective Communities: Anticolonial Thought and the Politics of Friendship''. New Delhi, Permanent Black, 2006, x, 254 p., $28. {{ISBN|81-7824-164-1}}. (jacket)</ref> Gandhi traces the social networks of activists in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries connecting [[Edward Carpenter]] with M.K. Gandhi and [[Mirra Alfassa]] with [[Sri Aurobindo]].<br />
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Through this work, Gandhi became noted for proposing a "conceptual model of postcolonial engagement" surrounding ethical premises of hospitality and "[[xenophilia]]", and for bringing for the first time a [[queer]] perspective to postcolonial theory.<br />
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Gandhi's third book, ''The Common Cause'', presents a transnational history of democracy in the first half of the twentieth century through the lens of ethics in the broad sense of disciplined self-fashioning.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|title = The Common Cause: Postcolonial Ethics and the Practice of Democracy, 1900–1955|last = Gandhi|first = Leela|publisher = University of Chicago Press|year = 2014|isbn = 9780226019901|at = Back Cover}}</ref> This book has been described as "an alternate history of democracy foregrounding events of errant relation," and "the most thoroughgoing defence of the value of infinite inclusivity to postcolonial studies."<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{cite journal|title = Reviews|journal = Interventions|date = 2014-11-02|issn = 1369-801X|pages = 926–937|volume = 16|issue = 6|doi = 10.1080/1369801X.2014.959372|first1 = Rijuta|last1 = Mehta|first2 = Tom|last2 = Langley|first3 = Jumana|last3 = Bayeh|first4 = Toni|last4 = Pressley-Sanon|first5 = Denise|last5 = Martin}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title = The Common Cause|url = http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/C/bo15220206.html|website = University of Chicago Press|access-date = 2015-10-27}}</ref><br />
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Leela Gandhi is also a published poet. Her first collection of poems, ''Measures of Home'', was published by Ravi Dayal in 2000, and her subsequent poetry is included in several anthologies.<ref>{{Cite book|title = The Penguin Book of Indian Poetry|publisher = Penguin|year = 2013|isbn = 9780143414537|editor-last = de Souza|editor-first = Eunice|editor-last2 = Silgardo|editor-first2 = Melanie}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|title = 60 Indian Poets|publisher = Penguin|year = 2008|isbn = 9780143064428|editor-last = Thayil|editor-first = Jeet}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|title = The HarperCollins Book of English Poetry|publisher = HarperCollins|year = 2012|isbn = 978-93-5029-041-5|editor-last = Sen|editor-first = Sudeep}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|title = Domestic Cherry|publisher = Snove Books|year = 2011|isbn = 9781447660453|editor-last = Watson|editor-first = Mabel|edition = 1|editor-last2 = Pitt|editor-first2 = Ursula}}</ref><br />
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== Published books ==<br />
* {{Citation|last=Gandhi|first=Leela|title=The Common Cause: Postcolonial Ethics and the Practice of Democracy, 1900–1955|date=2014|publisher=[[University of Chicago Press]]|isbn=9780226019901}}<br />
*{{Citation|last=|first=|title=Around 1948: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Global Transformation|date=Summer 2014|volume=40|issue=4|editor-last=Gandhi|editor-first=Leela|series=[[Critical Inquiry]]|publisher=|doi=10.1086/673748|isbn=|editor2-last=Nelson|editor2-first=Deborah L.|editor2-link=Deborah L. Nelson}}<br />
*{{Citation|last=Ezekiel|first=Nissim|title=Collected Poems|date=2006|series=Oxford India Paperbacks|edition=2|publisher=[[Oxford University Press]]|isbn=9780195672497|last2=Gandhi|first2=Leela|last3=Thierne|first3=John|author-link=Nissim Ezekiel}}<br />
*{{Citation|last=Gandhi|first=Leela|title=Affective Communities: Anticolonial Thought, Fin-de-Siècle Radicalism, and the Politics of Friendship|date=2006|series=Politics, History, and Culture|publisher=[[Duke University Press]]|isbn=0-8223-3715-0}}<br />
*{{Citation|last=|first=|title=England Through Colonial Eyes in Twentieth-Century Fiction|date=2001|volume=|issue=|editor-last=Blake|editor-first=Ann|series=|publisher=[[Palgrave Macmillan]]|doi=|isbn=0-333-73744-X|editor2-last=Gandhi|editor2-first=Leela|editor3-last=Thomas|editor3-first=Sue}}<br />
*{{Citation|last=Gandhi|first=Leela|title=Postcolonial Theory: A Critical Introduction|date=1998|publisher=[[Columbia University Press]]|isbn=0-231-11273-4}}<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Thomas|first=Dominic Richard David|date=2003|title=Postcolonial Theory: A Critical Introduction (review)|url=https://muse.jhu.edu/article/44732|journal=Research in African Literatures|volume=34|issue=3|pages=214–215|doi=10.1353/ral.2003.0088|issn=1527-2044}}</ref><br />
*{{Citation|last=Gandhi|first=Leela|title=Measures of Home: Poems|date=2000|series=|publisher=[[Orient Longman]]|isbn=817530023X}}<br />
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