ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the details of possibilities of an Indian Oedipus. It shows how profoundly Girard's thesis may apply to the story of the Partition of India. The chapter sees other instances of conflict, including the one over the disputed Babri Masjid, as arising from such mimetic and competitive desire. Jumping from Gandhi's assassination to Deleuze and Guattari may at first seem strange, but serves an important purpose. The kind of freedom that Deleuze and Guattari strove for is surely homologous to Gandhi's own concept of moksha. For Gandhi 'Freedom from all bondage is moksha'. In Anti-Oedipus, Deleuze and Guattari declare: 'Oedipus is always colonization pursued by other means, it is the interior colony, and where the Europeans are concerned, it is one intimate colonial education'. Apart from destabilizing Oedipus, Goodhart's thesis has little else to offer people, when it comes to Nathuram's slaying of Gandhi. Girard's theory leads away from Oedipus but into another sort of trap.
