ABSTRACT
This chapter briefly examines the history of the site of Rajghat in Delhi, where Gandhi was cremated in 1948. While the bulk of the book emphasizes a Gandhian low-cost architectural present as an event that seemingly self-evidently and implicitly blended within new, emergent presentist frames, this final chapter draws attention to the peculiar manner in which the present moment of commemorating Gandhi’s cremation, through the nineteen fifties and early sixties, was the outcome of an explicit, willed decision on the part of the planners of the site of Rajghat to adhere to the immediate present of that site as a perpetual present.
