1st Edition
Revolutionary Lives in South Asia Acts and Afterlives of Anticolonial Political Action
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
Biography
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.
