Introduction: After Affect -- Poetry, Positivism, History -- 1. Brotherhood of the Pure: The Poetics and Politics of Cultural Transgression -- 2. Empire, Orientalism, and Native Informants: The Scholarly Endeavours of Sir Attar Singh Bhadour -- 3. Religious Protest: From Gurdwara Rikabganj to Viceregal Palace -- 4. The Ghadar Movement and Its Anarchist Genealogy -- 5. The Inner Life of Bhagat Singh and the Making of a Maximal Self -- 6. An Epic Without a Text: Imagining the Indian Diaspora -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary:
"Documents how the premodern techniques of narrating the past and truth-telling in South Asia were deeply transformed by colonialism, particularly among the Sikhs in northern India"-- Provided by publisher.
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