Categories: History

India: A History (Revised Edition)

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<p><span style="color: rgb(15, 17, 17); font-family: &quot;Amazon Ember&quot;, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">John Keay is a writer, broadcaster and historian whose books include ‘Into India’, ‘India Discovered’, ‘When Men and Mountains Meet’, ‘Highland Drove’, ‘The Honourable Company: A History of the English East India Company’, ‘The Great Arc’, ‘China: A History’ and (with his wife, Julia Keay) the ‘Collins Encyclopaedia of Scotland’. He has travelled extensively in India and the Far East, and specialised in Asian history and current affairs.</span><br></p>

Waiting for the People: The Idea of Democracy in Indian Anticolonial Thought

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The purported “backwardness” of Indians as a people led to a democratic legitimation of empire, justifying self-government at home and imperial rule in the colonies.</p><p class="wysiwyg-truncate-paragraph" style="border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; border-color: currentcolor; --77: 0; --78: 0; --79: 0; --7a: 0; --7b: 0; --7c: 0; --7d: 0; --7e: 1; --7f: 1; --7g: ; --7h: ; --7i: ; --7j: proximity; --7k: ; --7l: ; --7m: ; --7n: ; --7o: ; --7p: ; --7q: ; --7r: ; --7s: ; --7t: 0px; --7u: #fff; --7v: rgb(147 197 253 / .5); --7w: 0 0 #0000; --7x: 0 0 #0000; --7y: 0 0 #0000; --7z: 0 0 #0000; --80: ; --81: ; --82: ; --83: ; --84: ; --85: ; --86: ; --87: ; --88: ; --89: ; --8a: ; --8b: ; --8c: ; --8d: ; --8e: ; --8f: ; --8g: ; --8h: ; margin: 1rem 0px 0px; font-family: var(--5g); font-size: var(--5h); font-stretch: var(--5i); font-weight: var(--5l); line-height: var(--5m); font-feature-settings: var(--5o); -webkit-font-smoothing: var(--5q); --74: var(--5r); color: rgb(13, 13, 13);">In response, Indian anticolonial thinkers launched a searching critique of the modern ideal of peoplehood.&nbsp;<i style="border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; border-color: currentcolor; --77: 0; --78: 0; --79: 0; --7a: 0; --7b: 0; --7c: 0; --7d: 0; --7e: 1; --7f: 1; --7g: ; --7h: ; --7i: ; --7j: proximity; --7k: ; --7l: ; --7m: ; --7n: ; --7o: ; --7p: ; --7q: ; --7r: ; --7s: ; --7t: 0px; --7u: #fff; --7v: rgb(147 197 253 / .5); --7w: 0 0 #0000; --7x: 0 0 #0000; --7y: 0 0 #0000; --7z: 0 0 #0000; --80: ; --81: ; --82: ; --83: ; --84: ; --85: ; --86: ; --87: ; --88: ; --89: ; --8a: ; --8b: ; --8c: ; --8d: ; --8e: ; --8f: ; --8g: ; --8h: ; font-family: var(--5g); font-size: var(--5h); font-stretch: var(--5i); font-variant: var(--5k); font-weight: var(--5l); line-height: var(--5m); letter-spacing: var(--5n); font-feature-settings: var(--5o); -webkit-font-smoothing: var(--5q); --74: var(--5r);">Waiting for the People</i>&nbsp;is the first account of Indian answers to the question of peoplehood in political theory. From Surendranath Banerjea and Radhakamal Mukerjee to Mohandas Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru, Indian political thinkers passionately explored the fraught theoretical space between sovereignty and government. In different ways, Indian anticolonial thinkers worked to address the developmental assumptions built into the modern problem of peoplehood, scrutinizing contemporary European definitions of “the people” and the assumption that a unified peoplehood was a prerequisite for self-government. Nazmul Sultan demonstrates how the anticolonial reckoning with the ideal of popular sovereignty fostered novel insights into the globalization of democracy and ultimately drove India’s twentieth-century political transformation.</p><p class="wysiwyg-truncate-paragraph" style="border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; border-color: currentcolor; --77: 0; --78: 0; --79: 0; --7a: 0; --7b: 0; --7c: 0; --7d: 0; --7e: 1; --7f: 1; --7g: ; --7h: ; --7i: ; --7j: proximity; --7k: ; --7l: ; --7m: ; --7n: ; --7o: ; --7p: ; --7q: ; --7r: ; --7s: ; --7t: 0px; --7u: #fff; --7v: rgb(147 197 253 / .5); --7w: 0 0 #0000; --7x: 0 0 #0000; --7y: 0 0 #0000; --7z: 0 0 #0000; --80: ; --81: ; --82: ; --83: ; --84: ; --85: ; --86: ; --87: ; --88: ; --89: ; --8a: ; --8b: ; --8c: ; --8d: ; --8e: ; --8f: ; --8g: ; --8h: ; margin: 1rem 0px 0px; font-family: var(--5g); font-size: var(--5h); font-stretch: var(--5i); font-weight: var(--5l); line-height: var(--5m); font-feature-settings: var(--5o); -webkit-font-smoothing: var(--5q); --74: var(--5r); color: rgb(13, 13, 13);"><i style="border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; border-color: currentcolor; --77: 0; --78: 0; --79: 0; --7a: 0; --7b: 0; --7c: 0; --7d: 0; --7e: 1; --7f: 1; --7g: ; --7h: ; --7i: ; --7j: proximity; --7k: ; --7l: ; --7m: ; --7n: ; --7o: ; --7p: ; --7q: ; --7r: ; --7s: ; --7t: 0px; --7u: #fff; --7v: rgb(147 197 253 / .5); --7w: 0 0 #0000; --7x: 0 0 #0000; --7y: 0 0 #0000; --7z: 0 0 #0000; --80: ; --81: ; --82: ; --83: ; --84: ; --85: ; --86: ; --87: ; --88: ; --89: ; --8a: ; --8b: ; --8c: ; --8d: ; --8e: ; --8f: ; --8g: ; --8h: ; font-family: var(--5g); font-size: var(--5h); font-stretch: var(--5i); font-variant: var(--5k); font-weight: var(--5l); line-height: var(--5m); letter-spacing: var(--5n); font-feature-settings: var(--5o); -webkit-font-smoothing: var(--5q); --74: var(--5r);">Waiting for the People</i>&nbsp;excavates, at once, the alternative forms and trajectories proposed for India’s path to popular sovereignty and the intellectual choices that laid the foundation for postcolonial democracy. In so doing, it uncovers largely unheralded Indian contributions to democratic theory at large. India’s effort to reconfigure the relationship between popular sovereignty and self-government proves a key event in the global history of political thought, one from which a great deal remains to be learned.</p>

Indian Ideas of Freedom

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<p><span style="color: rgb(74, 74, 74); font-family: &quot;Open Sans&quot;, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Indian Ideas of Freedom is an illuminating study of the lens through which freedom was perceived by thinkers such as Swami Vivekananda, Aurobindo Ghose, Mahatma Gandhi, Rabindranath Tagore, B.R. Ambedkar, M.N. Roy and Jayaprakash Narayan. It examines how, for this ‘group of seven’, the pursuit of freedom was both individual and political; how their ideas and arguments, drawing heavily on indigenous cultural resources, were far from imitative and thus distinct. In that, it explores their contribution to an intellectual tradition that braced an extraordinary nationalist movement. And while the differences among these seven are apparent, their similarities are less recognized; they are presented here as parallel. Dennis Dalton’s reading of the extensive writings and speeches of these thinkers is critical but compassionate. Moreover, as James Tully observes in his Afterword to the book, Dalton ‘participates in the dialogue’ in which he places the theorists-a method of studying political thought Tully deems ‘as original and important as the tradition of freedom it brings to light’. This is an exemplary work about political thought for both the scholar and those interested in history and politics.</span><br></p>

THE UNTOLD STORY OF INDIA'S PARTITION

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<p><span style="color: rgb(43, 43, 43); font-family: Lato;">Historians and political analysts have not paid enough attention to the crucial link between Indias partition and British fears about the USSR gaining control of Central Asia. Realizing that Indian nationalists would not play the Great Game against the Soviet Union the British settled for those willing to do so using Islam as a political tool in pursuit of their objectives. How this operation was conceived and carried out forms the theme of this untold story of Indias partition. Narendra Singh Sarila unearths top-secret documents which throw new light on several prominent political figures of the era while bringing out little-known facts about the pressure that the US exerted on Britain to grant India her independence. The author also traces the roots of the present Kashmir imbroglio in this fascinating account.</span><br></p>

Jallianwala Bagh, 1919: The Real Story

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<p style="margin: 6px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; line-height: 24px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: &quot;Open Sans&quot;, sans-serif;">It has been a century since the massacre at Jallianwala Bagh, but Punjab is still to recover from the shock of it. The British Empire never did either-the impact of those bullets fired for ten minutes at an unarmed, peaceful crowd inside a community park with one narrow exit rang through its remaining years in India. Yet, the true horror of the event itself has been forgotten, as also the volatile atmosphere in Punjab at the time.</p><p style="margin: 6px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; line-height: 24px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: &quot;Open Sans&quot;, sans-serif;">What was the catalyst for the events of that day and how did it become a turning point in India’s struggle for independence? Why did the British feel the need to impose martial law on Amritsar, which had shown little inclination for violence, despite provocation? What do we know about the individuals whose lives spun out of control on 19 April 1919, never to recover? Why did the people of Punjab suffer barbaric punishments, including public flogging, torture and even bombing, unknown to the rest of the world?</p><p style="margin: 6px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; line-height: 24px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: &quot;Open Sans&quot;, sans-serif;">These are the questions fuelling the research that eventually gave shape to this meticulous and determined reconstruction of that crucial day, and the events which followed. Based on the reports of the Hunter Committee and the Indian National Congress, as well as other historical documents,&nbsp;<em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">Jallianwala Bagh, 1919: The Real Story</em>&nbsp;provides a sharp analysis of General Dyer’s actions and their fallout-the official narrative and the Indian counter-narratives.</p>

Political Violence in Ancient India

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<p class="" style="border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; border-color: currentcolor; --77: 0; --78: 0; --79: 0; --7a: 0; --7b: 0; --7c: 0; --7d: 0; --7e: 1; --7f: 1; --7g: ; --7h: ; --7i: ; --7j: proximity; --7k: ; --7l: ; --7m: ; --7n: ; --7o: ; --7p: ; --7q: ; --7r: ; --7s: ; --7t: 0px; --7u: #fff; --7v: rgb(147 197 253 / .5); --7w: 0 0 #0000; --7x: 0 0 #0000; --7y: 0 0 #0000; --7z: 0 0 #0000; --80: ; --81: ; --82: ; --83: ; --84: ; --85: ; --86: ; --87: ; --88: ; --89: ; --8a: ; --8b: ; --8c: ; --8d: ; --8e: ; --8f: ; --8g: ; --8h: ; margin: 0rem 0px 0px; font-family: var(--5g); font-size: var(--5h); font-stretch: var(--5i); font-weight: var(--5l); line-height: var(--5m); font-feature-settings: var(--5o); -webkit-font-smoothing: var(--5q); --74: var(--5r); color: rgb(13, 13, 13);">Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru helped create the myth of a nonviolent ancient India while building a modern independence movement on the principle of nonviolence&nbsp;<i style="border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; border-color: currentcolor; --77: 0; --78: 0; --79: 0; --7a: 0; --7b: 0; --7c: 0; --7d: 0; --7e: 1; --7f: 1; --7g: ; --7h: ; --7i: ; --7j: proximity; --7k: ; --7l: ; --7m: ; --7n: ; --7o: ; --7p: ; --7q: ; --7r: ; --7s: ; --7t: 0px; --7u: #fff; --7v: rgb(147 197 253 / .5); --7w: 0 0 #0000; --7x: 0 0 #0000; --7y: 0 0 #0000; --7z: 0 0 #0000; --80: ; --81: ; --82: ; --83: ; --84: ; --85: ; --86: ; --87: ; --88: ; --89: ; --8a: ; --8b: ; --8c: ; --8d: ; --8e: ; --8f: ; --8g: ; --8h: ; font-family: var(--5g); font-size: var(--5h); font-stretch: var(--5i); font-variant: var(--5k); font-weight: var(--5l); line-height: var(--5m); letter-spacing: var(--5n); font-feature-settings: var(--5o); -webkit-font-smoothing: var(--5q); --74: var(--5r);">(ahimsa)</i>. But this myth obscures a troubled and complex heritage: a long struggle to reconcile the ethics of nonviolence with the need to use violence to rule. Upinder Singh documents the dynamic tension between violence and nonviolence in ancient Indian political thought and practice over twelve hundred years.</p><p class="wysiwyg-truncate-paragraph" style="border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; border-color: currentcolor; --77: 0; --78: 0; --79: 0; --7a: 0; --7b: 0; --7c: 0; --7d: 0; --7e: 1; --7f: 1; --7g: ; --7h: ; --7i: ; --7j: proximity; --7k: ; --7l: ; --7m: ; --7n: ; --7o: ; --7p: ; --7q: ; --7r: ; --7s: ; --7t: 0px; --7u: #fff; --7v: rgb(147 197 253 / .5); --7w: 0 0 #0000; --7x: 0 0 #0000; --7y: 0 0 #0000; --7z: 0 0 #0000; --80: ; --81: ; --82: ; --83: ; --84: ; --85: ; --86: ; --87: ; --88: ; --89: ; --8a: ; --8b: ; --8c: ; --8d: ; --8e: ; --8f: ; --8g: ; --8h: ; margin: 1rem 0px 0px; font-family: var(--5g); font-size: var(--5h); font-stretch: var(--5i); font-weight: var(--5l); line-height: var(--5m); font-feature-settings: var(--5o); -webkit-font-smoothing: var(--5q); --74: var(--5r); color: rgb(13, 13, 13);"><i style="border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; border-color: currentcolor; --77: 0; --78: 0; --79: 0; --7a: 0; --7b: 0; --7c: 0; --7d: 0; --7e: 1; --7f: 1; --7g: ; --7h: ; --7i: ; --7j: proximity; --7k: ; --7l: ; --7m: ; --7n: ; --7o: ; --7p: ; --7q: ; --7r: ; --7s: ; --7t: 0px; --7u: #fff; --7v: rgb(147 197 253 / .5); --7w: 0 0 #0000; --7x: 0 0 #0000; --7y: 0 0 #0000; --7z: 0 0 #0000; --80: ; --81: ; --82: ; --83: ; --84: ; --85: ; --86: ; --87: ; --88: ; --89: ; --8a: ; --8b: ; --8c: ; --8d: ; --8e: ; --8f: ; --8g: ; --8h: ; font-family: var(--5g); font-size: var(--5h); font-stretch: var(--5i); font-variant: var(--5k); font-weight: var(--5l); line-height: var(--5m); letter-spacing: var(--5n); font-feature-settings: var(--5o); -webkit-font-smoothing: var(--5q); --74: var(--5r);">Political Violence in Ancient India</i>&nbsp;looks at representations of kingship and political violence in epics, religious texts, political treatises, plays, poems, inscriptions, and art from 600 BCE to 600 CE. As kings controlled their realms, fought battles, and meted out justice, intellectuals debated the boundary between the force required to sustain power and the excess that led to tyranny and oppression. Duty&nbsp;<i style="border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; border-color: currentcolor; --77: 0; --78: 0; --79: 0; --7a: 0; --7b: 0; --7c: 0; --7d: 0; --7e: 1; --7f: 1; --7g: ; --7h: ; --7i: ; --7j: proximity; --7k: ; --7l: ; --7m: ; --7n: ; --7o: ; --7p: ; --7q: ; --7r: ; --7s: ; --7t: 0px; --7u: #fff; --7v: rgb(147 197 253 / .5); --7w: 0 0 #0000; --7x: 0 0 #0000; --7y: 0 0 #0000; --7z: 0 0 #0000; --80: ; --81: ; --82: ; --83: ; --84: ; --85: ; --86: ; --87: ; --88: ; --89: ; --8a: ; --8b: ; --8c: ; --8d: ; --8e: ; --8f: ; --8g: ; --8h: ; font-family: var(--5g); font-size: var(--5h); font-stretch: var(--5i); font-variant: var(--5k); font-weight: var(--5l); line-height: var(--5m); letter-spacing: var(--5n); font-feature-settings: var(--5o); -webkit-font-smoothing: var(--5q); --74: var(--5r);">(dharma)</i>&nbsp;and renunciation were important in this discussion, as were punishment, war, forest tribes, and the royal hunt. Singh reveals a range of perspectives that defy rigid religious categorization. Buddhists, Jainas, and even the pacifist Maurya emperor Ashoka recognized that absolute nonviolence was impossible for kings.</p><p class="wysiwyg-truncate-paragraph" style="border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; border-color: currentcolor; --77: 0; --78: 0; --79: 0; --7a: 0; --7b: 0; --7c: 0; --7d: 0; --7e: 1; --7f: 1; --7g: ; --7h: ; --7i: ; --7j: proximity; --7k: ; --7l: ; --7m: ; --7n: ; --7o: ; --7p: ; --7q: ; --7r: ; --7s: ; --7t: 0px; --7u: #fff; --7v: rgb(147 197 253 / .5); --7w: 0 0 #0000; --7x: 0 0 #0000; --7y: 0 0 #0000; --7z: 0 0 #0000; --80: ; --81: ; --82: ; --83: ; --84: ; --85: ; --86: ; --87: ; --88: ; --89: ; --8a: ; --8b: ; --8c: ; --8d: ; --8e: ; --8f: ; --8g: ; --8h: ; margin: 1rem 0px 0px; font-family: var(--5g); font-size: var(--5h); font-stretch: var(--5i); font-weight: var(--5l); line-height: var(--5m); font-feature-settings: var(--5o); -webkit-font-smoothing: var(--5q); --74: var(--5r); color: rgb(13, 13, 13);">By 600 CE religious thinkers, political theorists, and poets had justified and aestheticized political violence to a great extent. Nevertheless, questions, doubt, and dissent remained. These debates are as important for understanding political ideas in the ancient world as for thinking about the problem of political violence in our own time.</p>

The Loss of Hindustan : The Invention of India

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border-color: currentcolor; --77: 0; --78: 0; --79: 0; --7a: 0; --7b: 0; --7c: 0; --7d: 0; --7e: 1; --7f: 1; --7g: ; --7h: ; --7i: ; --7j: proximity; --7k: ; --7l: ; --7m: ; --7n: ; --7o: ; --7p: ; --7q: ; --7r: ; --7s: ; --7t: 0px; --7u: #fff; --7v: rgb(147 197 253 / .5); --7w: 0 0 #0000; --7x: 0 0 #0000; --7y: 0 0 #0000; --7z: 0 0 #0000; --80: ; --81: ; --82: ; --83: ; --84: ; --85: ; --86: ; --87: ; --88: ; --89: ; --8a: ; --8b: ; --8c: ; --8d: ; --8e: ; --8f: ; --8g: ; --8h: ; font-family: var(--5g); font-size: var(--5h); font-stretch: var(--5i); font-style: var(--5j); font-variant: var(--5k); font-weight: var(--5l); line-height: var(--5m); letter-spacing: var(--5n); font-feature-settings: var(--5o); -webkit-font-smoothing: var(--5q); --74: var(--5r);">—Mahmood Mamdani</p><p class="wysiwyg-truncate-paragraph" style="border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; border-color: currentcolor; --77: 0; --78: 0; --79: 0; --7a: 0; --7b: 0; --7c: 0; --7d: 0; --7e: 1; --7f: 1; --7g: ; --7h: ; --7i: ; --7j: proximity; --7k: ; --7l: ; --7m: ; --7n: ; --7o: ; --7p: ; --7q: ; --7r: ; --7s: ; --7t: 0px; --7u: #fff; --7v: rgb(147 197 253 / .5); --7w: 0 0 #0000; --7x: 0 0 #0000; --7y: 0 0 #0000; --7z: 0 0 #0000; --80: ; --81: ; --82: ; --83: ; --84: ; --85: ; --86: ; --87: ; --88: ; --89: ; --8a: ; --8b: ; --8c: ; --8d: ; --8e: ; --8f: ; --8g: ; --8h: ; margin: 1rem 0px 0px; font-family: var(--5g); font-size: var(--5h); font-stretch: var(--5i); font-weight: var(--5l); line-height: var(--5m); font-feature-settings: var(--5o); -webkit-font-smoothing: var(--5q); --74: var(--5r); color: rgb(13, 13, 13);">“The brilliance of Asif’s book rests in the way he makes readers think about the name ‘Hindustan’…Asif’s focus is Indian history but it is, at the same time, a lens to look at questions far bigger.”<br style="border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; border-color: currentcolor; --77: 0; --78: 0; --79: 0; --7a: 0; --7b: 0; --7c: 0; --7d: 0; --7e: 1; --7f: 1; --7g: ; --7h: ; --7i: ; --7j: proximity; --7k: ; --7l: ; --7m: ; --7n: ; --7o: ; --7p: ; --7q: ; --7r: ; --7s: ; --7t: 0px; --7u: #fff; --7v: rgb(147 197 253 / .5); --7w: 0 0 #0000; --7x: 0 0 #0000; --7y: 0 0 #0000; --7z: 0 0 #0000; --80: ; --81: ; --82: ; --83: ; --84: ; --85: ; --86: ; --87: ; --88: ; --89: ; --8a: ; --8b: ; --8c: ; --8d: ; --8e: ; --8f: ; --8g: ; --8h: ; font-family: var(--5g); font-size: var(--5h); font-stretch: var(--5i); font-style: var(--5j); font-variant: var(--5k); font-weight: var(--5l); line-height: var(--5m); letter-spacing: var(--5n); font-feature-settings: var(--5o); -webkit-font-smoothing: var(--5q); --74: var(--5r);">—Soni Wadhwa,&nbsp;<i style="border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; border-color: currentcolor; --77: 0; --78: 0; --79: 0; --7a: 0; --7b: 0; --7c: 0; --7d: 0; --7e: 1; --7f: 1; --7g: ; --7h: ; --7i: ; --7j: proximity; --7k: ; --7l: ; --7m: ; --7n: ; --7o: ; --7p: ; --7q: ; --7r: ; --7s: ; --7t: 0px; --7u: #fff; --7v: rgb(147 197 253 / .5); --7w: 0 0 #0000; --7x: 0 0 #0000; --7y: 0 0 #0000; --7z: 0 0 #0000; --80: ; --81: ; --82: ; --83: ; --84: ; --85: ; --86: ; --87: ; --88: ; --89: ; --8a: ; --8b: ; --8c: ; --8d: ; --8e: ; --8f: ; --8g: ; --8h: ; font-family: var(--5g); font-size: var(--5h); font-stretch: var(--5i); font-variant: var(--5k); font-weight: var(--5l); line-height: var(--5m); letter-spacing: var(--5n); font-feature-settings: var(--5o); -webkit-font-smoothing: var(--5q); --74: var(--5r);">Asian Review of Books</i></p><p class="wysiwyg-truncate-paragraph" style="border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; border-color: currentcolor; --77: 0; --78: 0; --79: 0; --7a: 0; --7b: 0; --7c: 0; --7d: 0; --7e: 1; --7f: 1; --7g: ; --7h: ; --7i: ; --7j: proximity; --7k: ; --7l: ; --7m: ; --7n: ; --7o: ; --7p: ; --7q: ; --7r: ; --7s: ; --7t: 0px; --7u: #fff; --7v: rgb(147 197 253 / .5); --7w: 0 0 #0000; --7x: 0 0 #0000; --7y: 0 0 #0000; --7z: 0 0 #0000; --80: ; --81: ; --82: ; --83: ; --84: ; --85: ; --86: ; --87: ; --88: ; --89: ; --8a: ; --8b: ; --8c: ; --8d: ; --8e: ; --8f: ; --8g: ; --8h: ; margin: 1rem 0px 0px; font-family: var(--5g); font-size: var(--5h); font-stretch: var(--5i); font-weight: var(--5l); line-height: var(--5m); font-feature-settings: var(--5o); -webkit-font-smoothing: var(--5q); --74: var(--5r); color: rgb(13, 13, 13);">“Remarkable…Asif’s analysis and conclusions are powerful and poignant.”<br style="border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; border-color: currentcolor; --77: 0; --78: 0; --79: 0; --7a: 0; --7b: 0; --7c: 0; --7d: 0; --7e: 1; --7f: 1; --7g: ; --7h: ; --7i: ; --7j: proximity; --7k: ; --7l: ; --7m: ; --7n: ; --7o: ; --7p: ; --7q: ; --7r: ; --7s: ; --7t: 0px; --7u: #fff; --7v: rgb(147 197 253 / .5); --7w: 0 0 #0000; --7x: 0 0 #0000; --7y: 0 0 #0000; --7z: 0 0 #0000; --80: ; --81: ; --82: ; --83: ; --84: ; --85: ; --86: ; --87: ; --88: ; --89: ; --8a: ; --8b: ; --8c: ; --8d: ; --8e: ; --8f: ; --8g: ; --8h: ; font-family: var(--5g); font-size: var(--5h); font-stretch: var(--5i); font-style: var(--5j); font-variant: var(--5k); font-weight: var(--5l); line-height: var(--5m); letter-spacing: var(--5n); font-feature-settings: var(--5o); -webkit-font-smoothing: var(--5q); --74: var(--5r);">—Rudrangshu Mukherjee,&nbsp;<i style="border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; border-color: currentcolor; --77: 0; --78: 0; --79: 0; --7a: 0; --7b: 0; --7c: 0; --7d: 0; --7e: 1; --7f: 1; --7g: ; --7h: ; --7i: ; --7j: proximity; --7k: ; --7l: ; --7m: ; --7n: ; --7o: ; --7p: ; --7q: ; --7r: ; --7s: ; --7t: 0px; --7u: #fff; --7v: rgb(147 197 253 / .5); --7w: 0 0 #0000; --7x: 0 0 #0000; --7y: 0 0 #0000; --7z: 0 0 #0000; --80: ; --81: ; --82: ; --83: ; --84: ; --85: ; --86: ; --87: ; --88: ; --89: ; --8a: ; --8b: ; --8c: ; --8d: ; --8e: ; --8f: ; --8g: ; --8h: ; font-family: var(--5g); font-size: var(--5h); font-stretch: var(--5i); font-variant: var(--5k); font-weight: var(--5l); line-height: var(--5m); letter-spacing: var(--5n); font-feature-settings: var(--5o); -webkit-font-smoothing: var(--5q); --74: var(--5r);">The Wire</i></p><p class="wysiwyg-truncate-paragraph" style="border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; border-color: currentcolor; --77: 0; --78: 0; --79: 0; --7a: 0; --7b: 0; --7c: 0; --7d: 0; --7e: 1; --7f: 1; --7g: ; --7h: ; --7i: ; --7j: proximity; --7k: ; --7l: ; --7m: ; --7n: ; --7o: ; --7p: ; --7q: ; --7r: ; --7s: ; --7t: 0px; --7u: #fff; --7v: rgb(147 197 253 / .5); --7w: 0 0 #0000; --7x: 0 0 #0000; --7y: 0 0 #0000; --7z: 0 0 #0000; --80: ; --81: ; --82: ; --83: ; --84: ; --85: ; --86: ; --87: ; --88: ; --89: ; --8a: ; --8b: ; --8c: ; --8d: ; --8e: ; --8f: ; --8g: ; --8h: ; margin: 1rem 0px 0px; font-family: var(--5g); font-size: var(--5h); font-stretch: var(--5i); font-weight: var(--5l); line-height: var(--5m); font-feature-settings: var(--5o); -webkit-font-smoothing: var(--5q); --74: var(--5r); color: rgb(13, 13, 13);">“A tremendous contribution…This is not only a book that you must read, but also one that you must chew over and debate.”<br style="border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; border-color: currentcolor; --77: 0; --78: 0; --79: 0; --7a: 0; --7b: 0; --7c: 0; --7d: 0; --7e: 1; --7f: 1; --7g: ; --7h: ; --7i: ; --7j: proximity; --7k: ; --7l: ; --7m: ; --7n: ; --7o: ; --7p: ; --7q: ; --7r: ; --7s: ; --7t: 0px; --7u: #fff; --7v: rgb(147 197 253 / .5); --7w: 0 0 #0000; --7x: 0 0 #0000; --7y: 0 0 #0000; --7z: 0 0 #0000; --80: ; --81: ; --82: ; --83: ; --84: ; --85: ; --86: ; --87: ; --88: ; --89: ; --8a: ; --8b: ; --8c: ; --8d: ; --8e: ; --8f: ; --8g: ; --8h: ; font-family: var(--5g); font-size: var(--5h); font-stretch: var(--5i); font-style: var(--5j); font-variant: var(--5k); font-weight: var(--5l); line-height: var(--5m); letter-spacing: var(--5n); font-feature-settings: var(--5o); -webkit-font-smoothing: var(--5q); --74: var(--5r);">—Audrey Truschke,&nbsp;<i style="border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; border-color: currentcolor; --77: 0; --78: 0; --79: 0; --7a: 0; --7b: 0; --7c: 0; --7d: 0; --7e: 1; --7f: 1; --7g: ; --7h: ; --7i: ; --7j: proximity; --7k: ; --7l: ; --7m: ; --7n: ; --7o: ; --7p: ; --7q: ; --7r: ; --7s: ; --7t: 0px; --7u: #fff; --7v: rgb(147 197 253 / .5); --7w: 0 0 #0000; --7x: 0 0 #0000; --7y: 0 0 #0000; --7z: 0 0 #0000; --80: ; --81: ; --82: ; --83: ; --84: ; --85: ; --86: ; --87: ; --88: ; --89: ; --8a: ; --8b: ; --8c: ; --8d: ; --8e: ; --8f: ; --8g: ; --8h: ; font-family: var(--5g); font-size: var(--5h); font-stretch: var(--5i); font-variant: var(--5k); font-weight: var(--5l); line-height: var(--5m); letter-spacing: var(--5n); font-feature-settings: var(--5o); -webkit-font-smoothing: var(--5q); --74: var(--5r);">Current History</i></p><p class="wysiwyg-truncate-paragraph" style="border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; border-color: currentcolor; --77: 0; --78: 0; --79: 0; --7a: 0; --7b: 0; --7c: 0; --7d: 0; --7e: 1; --7f: 1; --7g: ; --7h: ; --7i: ; --7j: proximity; --7k: ; --7l: ; --7m: ; --7n: ; --7o: ; --7p: ; --7q: ; --7r: ; --7s: ; --7t: 0px; --7u: #fff; --7v: rgb(147 197 253 / .5); --7w: 0 0 #0000; --7x: 0 0 #0000; --7y: 0 0 #0000; --7z: 0 0 #0000; --80: ; --81: ; --82: ; --83: ; --84: ; --85: ; --86: ; --87: ; --88: ; --89: ; --8a: ; --8b: ; --8c: ; --8d: ; --8e: ; --8f: ; --8g: ; --8h: ; margin: 1rem 0px 0px; font-family: var(--5g); font-size: var(--5h); font-stretch: var(--5i); font-weight: var(--5l); line-height: var(--5m); font-feature-settings: var(--5o); -webkit-font-smoothing: var(--5q); --74: var(--5r); color: rgb(13, 13, 13);">Did India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh have a shared regional identity prior to the arrival of Europeans in the late fifteenth century? Manan Ahmed Asif tackles this contentious question by inviting us to reconsider the work and legacy of the influential historian Muhammad Qasim Firishta, a contemporary of the Mughal emperors Akbar and Jahangir. Inspired by his reading of Firishta and other historians, Asif seeks to rescue our understanding of the region from colonial narratives that emphasize difference and division.</p><p class="wysiwyg-truncate-paragraph" style="border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; border-color: currentcolor; --77: 0; --78: 0; --79: 0; --7a: 0; --7b: 0; --7c: 0; --7d: 0; --7e: 1; --7f: 1; --7g: ; --7h: ; --7i: ; --7j: proximity; --7k: ; --7l: ; --7m: ; --7n: ; --7o: ; --7p: ; --7q: ; --7r: ; --7s: ; --7t: 0px; --7u: #fff; --7v: rgb(147 197 253 / .5); --7w: 0 0 #0000; --7x: 0 0 #0000; --7y: 0 0 #0000; --7z: 0 0 #0000; --80: ; --81: ; --82: ; --83: ; --84: ; --85: ; --86: ; --87: ; --88: ; --89: ; --8a: ; --8b: ; --8c: ; --8d: ; --8e: ; --8f: ; --8g: ; --8h: ; margin: 1rem 0px 0px; font-family: var(--5g); font-size: var(--5h); font-stretch: var(--5i); font-weight: var(--5l); line-height: var(--5m); font-feature-settings: var(--5o); -webkit-font-smoothing: var(--5q); --74: var(--5r); color: rgb(13, 13, 13);">Asif argues that a European understanding of India as Hindu has replaced an earlier, native understanding of India as Hindustan, a home for all faiths. Turning to the subcontinent’s medieval past, he uncovers a rich network of historians of Hindustan who imagined, studied, and shaped their kings, cities, and societies.&nbsp;<i style="border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; border-color: currentcolor; --77: 0; --78: 0; --79: 0; --7a: 0; --7b: 0; --7c: 0; --7d: 0; --7e: 1; --7f: 1; --7g: ; --7h: ; --7i: ; --7j: proximity; --7k: ; --7l: ; --7m: ; --7n: ; --7o: ; --7p: ; --7q: ; --7r: ; --7s: ; --7t: 0px; --7u: #fff; --7v: rgb(147 197 253 / .5); --7w: 0 0 #0000; --7x: 0 0 #0000; --7y: 0 0 #0000; --7z: 0 0 #0000; --80: ; --81: ; --82: ; --83: ; --84: ; --85: ; --86: ; --87: ; --88: ; --89: ; --8a: ; --8b: ; --8c: ; --8d: ; --8e: ; --8f: ; --8g: ; --8h: ; font-family: var(--5g); font-size: var(--5h); font-stretch: var(--5i); font-variant: var(--5k); font-weight: var(--5l); line-height: var(--5m); letter-spacing: var(--5n); font-feature-settings: var(--5o); -webkit-font-smoothing: var(--5q); --74: var(--5r);">The Loss of Hindustan</i>&nbsp;reveals how multicultural Hindustan was deliberately eclipsed in favor of the religiously partitioned world of today. A magisterial work with far reaching implications, it offers a radical reinterpretation of how India came to its contemporary political identity.</p>

The Execution of Bhagat Singh: Legal Heresies of the Raj

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<p style="margin: 6px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; line-height: 24px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: &quot;Open Sans&quot;, sans-serif;">Bhagat Singh, one of the most influential revolutionaries of the Indian Independence movement, was only twenty-three when he was executed in 1931. In their attempt to punish him, British authorities used controversial legislative powers to make an ordinance supposedly aimed at preserving ‘peace, order and good government’ but one that was never approved by the Central Assembly in India nor the British Parliament. A three-judge special tribunal was mandated to complete a hearing within a fixed period that did not even allow the 457 prosecution witnesses to be cross-examined.</p><p style="margin: 6px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; line-height: 24px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: &quot;Open Sans&quot;, sans-serif;">Dr Satvinder Singh Juss, a London-based law professor and practising barrister, looks at these and other flaws in the legal process that was followed leading to the hanging. Full of engrossing detail from previously unpublished original archival material, including documents translated here for the first time,&nbsp;<em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">The Execution of Bhagat Singh&nbsp;</em>considers the case for setting aside the sentence of execution in retrospect and for an official pardon for the revolutionary today.</p>

Independence Day: A People's History

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<p><span style="font-family: Poppins, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space-collapse: preserve-breaks;">Seventy-five years ago, India attained its independence. What was it like to be an ordinary citizen during that time? How did they celebrate the first Independence Day? What was the atmosphere like on the streets, in cities and towns and faraway villages? How did the people feel? And how do they feel today about the country they witnessed being born? In this extraordinarily moving book, fifteen Indians from across the country tell their stories of their first Independence Day– some were no more than four or five, others, young adults about to enter college. Some lived in far-off places without the newspaper or the radio to give them the news; some had never seen an Englishman and didn’t know what freedom meant. Others lived in fear of communal riots and their lives being destroyed. Here are stories from Bombay and Delhi and Mysore and Lahore, from riot-struck Punjab and Bengal to remote villages in Bihar and Tamil Nadu. These stories, each utterly different, make history come vividly alive, reminding us that behind the facts and the big dates lie the beating hearts of countless Indians who created history together. Deeply inspiring and totally gripping, Independence Day will make 15 August 1947 – and a slice of India’s history – come wholly alive.</span><br></p>

Circles of Freedom : Friendship, Love and Loyalty in The Indian National Struggle

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<p style="margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 11px; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(43, 43, 43); font-family: Lato;">The Indian national movement was never a monolith.Millions participated in it; there were many important streams and personalities that shaped it. Most accounts are dominated by Gandhi, Nehru, Patel and Ambedkar, and a standard set of events – the Government of India acts, the Round Tables and the mass agitations. But what becomes invisible in these retellings are actual people whose lives were indelibly changed by this great struggle and who left their stamp on it in their own ways. This brilliant book, by the critically acclaimed historian T.C.A. Raghavan, is an ambitious attempt to tell the story of the freedom movement through five such characters.</p><p style="margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 11px; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(43, 43, 43); font-family: Lato;">At the centre is Asaf Ali, who figured in several of the movement’s seminal moments and whose perspective exemplifies many of the core ideas of the struggle that we still contend with today. Asaf ’s story illustrates the predicament of the moderate Muslim in the national movement – viewed with suspicion by many in the Congress and as a renegade by many in his own community.His controversial marriage to the firebrand Aruna Asaf Ali brought to the fore not only questions about Hindu–Muslim relationships but also the discussion on whether the path to change should be constitutional or revolutionary.</p><p style="margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 11px; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(43, 43, 43); font-family: Lato;">Sarojini Naidu was pre-eminent in this circle, her vibrant personality, her passionate championing of Hindu–Muslim unity made her one of the earliest standard-bearers of the national movement. Syud Hossain and Syed Mahmud – the journalist and the politician – complete the circle. Through the eyes of Asaf and his friends we get a different perspective of events, not a ringside view but a view just beyond the ring. Written with empathy and deep insight, this is sure to become a classic.</p>