01458    a2200133   4500020001800000082002000018100001800038245008200056260004800138300001400186504003600200520097200236650011601208  a9781108486101  a954.035 bMOF-I  aMoffat, Chris  aIndia's revolutionary inheritanceb: politics and the promise of Bhagat Singh  bCambridge University Pressc2019aNew Delhi  axi, 282p.  aInclude Bibliography and Index
  aWhat 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.  aPolitical activities -- HistoryvMuslimsvJihadvSocial movement vSepoy rebellion, 1857-1858vReligion-- Islam