India''s Revolutionary Inheritance - Politics and the Promise of Bhagat Singh

Interrogates the explosive potential of revolutionary anti-colonial 'afterlives' in contemporary Indian politics and society.

List of contents

Introduction: the work of the dead; Part I: 1. Lahore and the possibility of politics; 2. What is to be done?; 3. Infinite Inquilab; Part II: Prologue; 4. Bhagat Singh's corpse; 5. In league with the dead; 6. Life and death in monuments; Conclusion: a politics of inheritance.

About the author

Chris Moffat is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow in the School of History, Queen Mary University of London.

Summary

This innovative account of revolutionary thought in South Asia explores the long-term legacies of militant violence and the politics of commemoration in a post-colonial context. Asking how anti-colonial martyrs have come to 'haunt' the independent state, Chris Moffat provides an exciting new window into contemporary Indian politics.

Product details

• Authors: Chris Moffat, Chris (Queen Mary University of London) Moffat, Moffat Chris
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.02.2019
• EAN: 9781108496902
• ISBN: 978-1-108-49690-2
• No. of pages: 292
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social & cultural history, India, Colonialism & imperialism, Social and cultural history, Colonialism and imperialism, Asian History, National liberation & independence, post-colonialism, National liberation and independence, HISTORY / Asia / South / General