Revolutionary Pasts

Communist Internationalism in Colonial India
Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-1-108-48184-7
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 303 Seiten, Format (B × H): 165 mm x 231 mm, Gewicht: 544 g

In this engaging and innovative history of the communist movement in colonial India, Ali Raza reveals the lives, geographies, and anti-colonial struggles of Indian revolutionaries and how they sought to remake the world. Driven by the utopian visions of Communist Internationalism, Indian revolutionaries yearned and struggled for a global upheaval that would overthrow European imperialisms and radically transform India and the world. In an age marked by political upheavals, intellectual ferment, collapsing empires, and global conflicts, Indian revolutionaries stood alongside countless others in the colonized world and beyond in their desire to usher in a future liberated from colonialism and capitalism. Drawing from a wealth of archival materials, Raza demonstrates how Communist Internationalism was a crucial project in the struggle for national liberation and inaugurates a new approach to the global history of communism and decolonization.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Raza, Ali

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kolonialgeschichte, Geschichte des Imperialismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Kolonialismus, Imperialismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Revolutionary pasts; 2. Travellers, migrants, rebels; 3. Break with the old world; 4. This time is ours; 5. Entangled histories; 6. Red scare; 7. A dream deferred; Postscript: utopias lost.

Über Autor(innen)

Raza, Ali
Ali Raza is Associate Professor of History at the Lahore University of Management Sciences.