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A Revolutionary History of Interwar India: Violence, Image, Voice and Tex
Kama Maclean
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Paperback. Maclean's history of Indian revolutionaries in the interwar years situates their politics of violence in the broader context of the freedom struggle and Congress politics. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 3JJG; HBJF; HBLW; HBTQ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 231 x 157 x 24. Weight in Grams: 538.
Focussing on the Hindustan Socialist Republican Army (HSRA), A Revolutionary History delivers a fresh perspective on the ambitions, ideologies and practices of this influential organisation, formed by Chandrashekhar Azad and Bhagat Singh and inspired by transnational anti-imperial dissent. It is a new interpretation of the activities and political impact of the north Indian revolution- aries who advocated the use of political violence against the British. Kama Maclean contends that the actions of these revolutionaries had a direct impact on Congress politics and tested its policy of non- violence. In doing so she draws on visual culture studies, demonstrating the efficacy ... Read more
Focussing on the Hindustan Socialist Republican Army (HSRA), A Revolutionary History delivers a fresh perspective on the ambitions, ideologies and practices of this influential organisation, formed by Chandrashekhar Azad and Bhagat Singh and inspired by transnational anti-imperial dissent. It is a new interpretation of the activities and political impact of the north Indian revolution- aries who advocated the use of political violence against the British. Kama Maclean contends that the actions of these revolutionaries had a direct impact on Congress politics and tested its policy of non- violence. In doing so she draws on visual culture studies, demonstrating the efficacy ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781849043328
SKU
V9781849043328
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About Kama Maclean
Kama Maclean is Associate Professor of South Asian and World History at UNSW in Sydney, and Editor of South Asia. Her book, Pilgrimage and Power, was awarded an honourable mention in the Ananda Coomaraswamy Prize (2009).
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