Bibliograph

Waiting for Swaraj, inner lives of Indian Revolutionaries, Aparna Vaidik

Type

Label

Waiting for Swaraj, inner lives of Indian Revolutionaries, Aparna Vaidik

Language

eng

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Waiting for Swaraj

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Oclc number

1256712325

Responsibility statement

Aparna Vaidik

Series statement

Cambridge Social Sciences eBooks

Sub title

inner lives of Indian Revolutionaries

Summary

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.--, Provided by publisher

Table Of Contents

The Revolutionary-Who-Waits -- Satyagrahi to Krantikari -- Between Inquilab and Kranti -- The Ascetic Kaalyoddha

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