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020			_a9781108486101
082			_a954.035 _bMOF-I
100			_aMoffat, Chris
245			_aIndia's revolutionary inheritance _b: politics and the promise of Bhagat Singh
260			_bCambridge University Press _c2019 _aNew Delhi
300			_axi, 282p.
504			_aInclude Bibliography and Index
520			_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.
650			_aPolitical activities -- History _vMuslims _vJihad _vSocial movement _vSepoy rebellion, 1857-1858 _vReligion-- Islam
942			_2ddc _cBK