01145pab a2200181 454500 180718b2004 xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d Jha, Sadan Charkha, `Dear Forgotten Friend' of widows: reading the erasures of a symbol 2004 p.3113-120. 10 Jul In Gandhian discourse, the charkha signifies `decentralisation against centralised production', `the sole remedy' for the dwindling handloom industry and the traditional sector in general. However, away from this, images of this popular symbol, and Gandhian `swaraj' acquired various shapes in the domain of political culture. The attempt here is to write a history of the spinning wheel with reference to strategies of gender politics that went into the construction of this semiotic space. This reading of erasures of a popular Gandhian symbol contributes to an understanding of the different layers of the politics of disjuncture which operate at many levels. - Reproduced. Widows Decentralization Gandhi, M.K. Economic and Political Weekly 61513 61513 61513 0 0 0 0 IIPA IIPA 2018-07-19 Volume no: 39, Issue no: 28 AR61963 2018-07-19 2018-07-19 AR