Abstract: As a unique genre of film, the film biography must follow the narrative principle of truth, particularly historical truth. The director and the actors of the film biography Gandhi were all British. In the later part of the film，the great havoc wreaked during the split between India and Pakistan was depicted in the film, but the massacres were attributed to the confrontation between Hinduism and Islam. In so doing, the film deliberately obscured the British colonial government’s “divide and rule policy”, which led to the collapse of the national resistance forces. In June 1947, the Indian Independence Act was endorsed by Mountbatten, who announced that India was divided into two autonomous regions, India and Pakistan, according to the religious belief. That was Mountbatten Plan and the consequence was the largest India-Pakistan refugee migration in the history of mankind. The partition caused incalculable humanitarian disaster. At that time, Gandhi once went on a hunger strike to call for an end to violence. The partition for both Gandhi's life or history of South Asia was historical, but the film's narrative strategy intentionally obscured the historical truth, which revealed the cultural position of the narrator and narrative ethics. To put it exactly, the narrative strategy was a set of British social culture’s coding, which completely obscured the British’s hand in India and Pakistan partition.

Keywords: Gandhi, narrative ethics, historical truth, obscure

Li Meimin is Associate Professor in College of Liberal Arts at Jiangxi Normal University. She earned her PhD in Literature and Arts at Peking University. Her research interests are cinematics and Indian culture. She is the author of “On Huallywood and Bollywood’s Filmic Image Interconnection in Asian Vision” (China Media Report, 2016) and “Bahubali: The Epic Reconstruction of the Indian Aesthetics Theory of Rasa”(Literature and Art, 2016). E-mail: sophie698@sina.com.