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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 public life, questioning
the easy distinction between 'words' and 'deeds' and considering
the distinct consequences of writing itself. While acknowledging
that the promise, fervour or threat of revolution is never
reducible to the written word, this collection explores how
manifestos, lyrics, legal documents, hagiographies and other
constellations of words and sentences articulate, contest and enact
revolutionary political practice in both colonial and post-colonial
South Asia. Emphasising the potential of writing to incite, contain
or reorient the present, this volume promises to provoke new
conversations at the intersection of historiography, politics and
literature in South Asia, urging scholars and activists to
interrogate their own storytelling practices and the relationship
of the contemporary moment to violent and contested pasts. This
book was originally published as a special issue of South Asia:
Journal of South Asian Studies.
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 public life, questioning
the easy distinction between 'words' and 'deeds' and considering
the distinct consequences of writing itself. While acknowledging
that the promise, fervour or threat of revolution is never
reducible to the written word, this collection explores how
manifestos, lyrics, legal documents, hagiographies and other
constellations of words and sentences articulate, contest and enact
revolutionary political practice in both colonial and post-colonial
South Asia. Emphasising the potential of writing to incite, contain
or reorient the present, this volume promises to provoke new
conversations at the intersection of historiography, politics and
literature in South Asia, urging scholars and activists to
interrogate their own storytelling practices and the relationship
of the contemporary moment to violent and contested pasts. This
book was originally published as a special issue of South Asia:
Journal of South Asian Studies.
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