1st Edition
Radical Politics in Colonial Punjab Governance and Sedition
By Shalini Sharma
Copyright 2010
188 Pages
by
Routledge
176 Pages
by
Routledge
176 Pages
by
Routledge
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The actions of the radical left in Punjab in pre-Independence India during the 1920s and 30s have often been viewed as foreign and quintessentially un-Indian due to their widely vilified opposition to the Quit India campaign. This book examines some of these deterministic misapprehensions and establishes that, in fact, Punjabi communism was inextricably woven in to the local culture and... Read more
Introduction Chapter 1 Section I: Political Punjab Section II: Communism and the Raj Chapter 2 Martyrdom and the Nation: the ‘Communism’ of the Naujawan Bharat Sabha
Chapter 3 Learning the new rules: the Punjab left in the 1930s Chapter 4 The contradictions of communism during World War II Conclusion Bibliography
Biography
Shalini Sharma is Lecturer in Colonial and Post-colonial History at Keele University, UK. Her research interests focus on the political histories of marginal groups and their interaction with political structures.
