Writing Revolution in South Asia

Kama Maclean is an associate professor of South Asian and World History at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia, and the editor of South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies. She is the author of A Revolutionary History of Interwar India (2015). J. Daniel Elam teaches in the Department of English and Drama, University of Toronto, Canada. He specialises in theories of World Literature, with a specific focus on twentieth-century South Asian literature and political writing. Chris Moffat is a lecturer in South Asian and Global History at Queen Mary University of London, UK.

1. Introduction: On the Form, Politics and Effects of Writing Revolution J. Daniel Elam and Chris Moffat

2. Born Like Krishna in the Prison-House: Revolutionary Asceticism in the Political Ashram of Aurobindo Ghose Alex Wolfers

3. Law and Radical Rhetoric in British India: The 1897 Trial of Bal Gangadhar Tilak Sukeshi Kamra

4. Gandhi and the Terrorists: Revolutionary Challenges from Bengal and Engagements with Non-Violent Political Protest Durba Ghosh

5. Agyeya’s Unfinished Revolution: Sexual and Social Freedom in Shekhar: Ek Jivani Snehal Shingavi

6. Commonplace Anti-Colonialism: Bhagat Singh’s Jail Notebook and the Politics of Reading J. Daniel Elam

7. ‘My Heart, My Fellow Traveller’: Fantasy, Futurity and the Itineraries of Faiz Ahmed Faiz Roanne Kantor

8. Revolutionary History and the Post-Colonial Muslim: Re-Writing the ‘Silk Letters Conspiracy’ of 1916 Faridah Zaman

9. Bhagat Singh’s Corpse Chris Moffat

10. A Prehistory of Violence? Revolution and Martyrs in the Making of a Political Tradition in Kerala Dilip M. Menon

11. Revolution and Revelation, or, When is History Too Soon? Kama Maclean