Writing Revolution in South Asia :

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Writing Revolution in South Asia : History, Practice, Politics / Kama Maclean, J. Daniel Elam, Christopher Moffat. - 1st - Basingstoke : Taylor & Francis Ltd ROULTEDGE 2017. - 1 online resource (186 pages).

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1. Introduction: On the Form, Politics and Effects of Writing Revolution 2. Born Like Krishna in the Prison-House: Revolutionary Asceticism in the Political Ashram of Aurobindo Ghose 3. Law and Radical Rhetoric in British India: The 1897 Trial of Bal Gangadhar Tilak 4. Gandhi and the Terrorists: Revolutionary Challenges from Bengal and Engagements with Non-Violent Political Protest 5. Agyeya’s Unfinished Revolution: Sexual and Social Freedom in Shekhar 6. Commonplace Anti-Colonialism: Bhagat Singh’s Jail Notebook and the Politics of Reading 7. ‘My Heart, My Fellow Traveller’: Fantasy, Futurity and the Itineraries of Faiz Ahmed Faiz 8. Revolutionary History and the Post-Colonial Muslim: Re-Writing the ‘Silk Letters Conspiracy’ of 1916 9. Bhagat Singh’s Corpse 10. A Prehistory of Violence? Revolution and Martyrs in the Making of a Political Tradition in Kerala 11. Revolution and Revelation, or, When is History Too Soon?

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This comprehensive volume examines the relationship between revolutionary politics and the act of writing in modern South Asia. Its pages feature a diverse cast of characters: rebel poets and anxious legislators, party theoreticians and industrious archivists, nostalgic novelists, enterprising journalists and more. The authors interrogate the multiple forms and effects of revolutionary storytelling in politics and Read more...


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