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India's Revolutionary Inheritance - Politics and the Promise of Bhagat Singh (Hardcover)
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India's Revolutionary Inheritance - Politics and the Promise of Bhagat Singh (Hardcover)
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What do anti-colonial histories mean for politics in contemporary
India? How can we understand a political terrain that appears
crowded with the dead, heroic figures from past struggles who call
the living to account and demand action? What role do these
'afterlives' play in the inauguration of new politics and the
fashioning of possible futures? In this engaging and innovative
analysis of anti-colonial afterlives in modern South Asia, Chris
Moffat crafts a framework that takes the dead seriously - not as
passive entities, ceremonially invoked, but as active interlocutors
and instigators in the present. Focusing on the iconic
revolutionary martyr Bhagat Singh (1907-1931), Moffat establishes
the problem of inheritance as central to the forms and futures of
democracy in this postcolonial polity. Tracing Bhagat Singh's
revenant presence in India today, he demonstrates how living
communities are animated by a sense of obligation, duty or debt to
the dead.
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