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The term 'revolutionary' is used liberally in histories of Indian anticolonialism, but scarcely defined. Implicitly understood, it functions as a signpost or a badge, generously conferred in hagiographies, loosely invoked in historiography, and strategically deployed in contemporary political contests. It is timely, then, to ask the question: Who counts as a 'revolutionary' in South Asia? How can we read 'the revolutionary' in Indian political formations? And what does it really mean to be 'revolutionary' in turbulent late colonial times? This volume takes a biographical approach to the question, by examining the life stories of a series of activists, some well known, who all defined themselves in explicitly revolutionary terms in the early twentieth century: V. D. Savarkar, M. N. Roy, Bhagat Singh, J.P. Narayan and Hansraj Vohra. The authors interrogate the subversive lives of these figures, tracing their polyglot influences and transnational impacts, to map out the discursive travels of 'the revolutionary' in Indian historical and literary worlds from the early 1900s, and to indicate its reverberations in the politics of the present.
This book was previously published as a special issue of Postcolonial Studies.
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
