Revolutionary Lives in South Asia - Acts and Afterlives of Anticolonial Political Action

Prompted by the prevalence of 'the revolutionary' in Indian political, historical and literary worlds, Revolutionary Lives explores the radical and cosmopolitan nature of anticolonialism in early twentieth century India through a biographical lens. The volume draws together ten eminent researchers from India, Europe, Australia and the US to analyse the lives of anticolonial activists, both unknown and infamous, to ask: how should we read claims to 'the revolutionary' in both contemporary and historical contexts?
This book was published as a special issue of Postcolonial Studies.

List of contents

1. Reading Revolutionaries: Texts, Acts, and Afterlives of Political Action in Late Colonial South Asia Who is a revolutionary? 2. A revolutionary’s biography: the case of V D Savarkar 3. The ‘arch priestess of anarchy’ visits Lahore: violence, love, and the worldliness of revolutionary texts 4. Bihar, California, and the US Midwest: the early radicalization of Jayaprakash Narayan 5. The impossible intimacies of M N Roy 6. Experiments in political truth 7. Death in three scenes of recitation 8. History of a renegade revolutionary: revolutionism and betrayal in colonial India

About the author

Kama Maclean is Associate Professor of South Asian and World History at the University of New South Wales and editor of South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies. She is the author of A Revolutionary History of Interwar India: Violence, Image, Voice and Text (London: Hurst & Co., 2014).

J Daniel Elam teaches in the Asian American Studies Program at Northwestern University. His work has been published or is forthcoming in Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, Interventions, and American Quarterly.

Product details

• Authors: Kama Elam Maclean
• Assisted by: J. Daniel Elam (Editor), J. David Elam (Editor), Elam J. Daniel (Editor), Kama MacLean (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 04.09.2014
• EAN: 9781138794979
• ISBN: 978-1-138-79497-9
• No. of pages: 136
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945); Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Folklore; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Political Advocacy, 20th Century, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Asian, Political activism, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Colonialism & imperialism, Colonialism and imperialism, Asian History, Indian sub-continent, South Asia (Indian sub-continent), Political activism / Political engagement, HISTORY / Asia / South / General