Revolutionary Pasts - Communist Internationalism in Colonial India

Raza traces the anti-colonial struggles of Indian revolutionaries in the context of Communist Internationalism during the last decades of the British Raj.

List of contents

1. Revolutionary pasts; 2. Travellers, migrants, rebels; 3. Break with the old world; 4. This time is ours; 5. Entangled histories; 6. Red scare; 7. A dream deferred; Postscript: utopias lost.

About the author

Ali Raza is Associate Professor of History at the Lahore University of Management Sciences.

Summary

In this history of the communist movement in South Asia from the eve of the First World War to Independence, Ali Raza reveals the lives, dreams, geographies, and anti-colonial struggles of Indian revolutionaries and their utopian visions of remaking the world.

Product details

• Authors: Ali Raza, Ali (Lahore University of Management Science Raza, Ali (Lahore University of Management Sciences Raza, Raza Ali
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.10.2022
• EAN: 9781108741491
• ISBN: 978-1-108-74149-1
• No. of pages: 296
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945); Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, India, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Colonialism & imperialism, Colonialism and imperialism, Asian History, HISTORY / Asia / South / General