Waiting for Swaraj

Inner Lives of Indian Revolutionaries

Aparna Vaidik (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

240 Seiten

2021
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-108-83808-5 (ISBN)

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This book contributes to a lively and burgeoning field of historical scholarship on the history of revolutionaries and revolutionary organizations in the Indian subcontinent. It reimagines the revolutionaries' self-conception and its relationship with time. Its narrative style will appeal to the specialists in the field, graduate students and general readers.

Set in British India of the 1920s, Waiting for Swaraj follows the cadence and tempo of the lives of the intrepid revolutionaries of the Hindustan Republican Association and the Hindustan Republican Socialist Association who challenged the British Raj. It seeks to comprehend the revolutionaries' self-conception - what did it mean to be a revolutionary? How did a revolutionary live out the vision of revolution, what was their everyday like, did life in revolution transform an individual, what was their truth and how was it different from that of the others? The book locates the essence of being a revolutionary not just in the spectacular moments when the revolutionaries threw a bomb or carried out a political assassination, but in the everyday conversations, banter, anecdotes, and in the stray fragments of the life in underground. It demonstrates how 'waiting' was the crucible that forged a revolutionary.

Aparna Vaidik is Associate Professor of History at Ashoka University, India. Previously she was at Georgetown University, Washington DC and University of Delhi. She is a historian of South Asia who has extensively written on history of penal settlements, island histories, the Indian Ocean, politics of violence and the Indian revolutionaries. Imperial Andamans: Colonial Encounter and Island History (2010) is her first monograph, and her most recent publication is a creative non-fiction titled My Son's Inheritance: A Secret History of Lynching and Blood Justice in India (2020). Her book Revolutionaries on Trial: Sedition, Betrayal and Martyrdom is forthcoming.

Prologue: the Intrepid Baharupiya; 1. The Revolutionary-Who-Waits; 2. Satyagrahi to Krantikari; 3. Between Inquilab and Kranti; 4. The Ascetic Kaalyoddha; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.

Erscheinungsdatum	01.07.2021
Zusatzinfo	Worked examples or Exercises
Verlagsort	Cambridge
Sprache	englisch
Maße	160 x 236 mm
Gewicht	450 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte
ISBN-10	1-108-83808-1 / 1108838081
ISBN-13	978-1-108-83808-5 / 9781108838085
Zustand	Neuware