One overriding aim of India’s Revolutionary Inheritance is to think seriously about how practices of historical storytelling might be opened up to acknowledge the influence and interventions of the dead. The book’s Conclusion draws the previous chapters together around the question of historiography – the way historians write about the past – and its relation to politics, anarchy and futurity. It summarizes how figures like Bhagat Singh challenge the historian’s craft, and how a consideration of the spectral might be written profitably into the study of modern South Asia and of post-colonial politics more generally. It does this by emphasizing the critical concept of inheritance and its utility for the study of afterlives in the modern world.