India’s Revolutionary Inheritance: Politics and the Promise of Bhagat Singh
- Submitting institution
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Queen Mary University of London
- Unit of assessment
- 28 - History
- Output identifier
- 1528
- Type
- A - Authored book
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- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- ISBN
- 978-1108496902
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- December
- Year of publication
- 2018
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Double-weighted statement
- This monograph provides an innovative account of revolutionary thought in South Asia,exploring the long-term legacies of militant violence and the politics of commemoration in post-colonial context. Asking how anti-colonial martyrs have come to 'haunt' the independent state, Moffat combines archival-research completed across multiple-countries over 6-years of research (doctoral and postdoctoral) with insights from extended ethnographic fieldwork in North India and Pakistan to provide a new window into contemporary South-Asian politics. Aside from providing the first critical study of the iconic anti-colonial revolutionary Bhagat Singh,the book foregrounds the importance of martyrdom, myth and memory in the global history of revolutionary politics.
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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