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5 - Entangled Histories

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 March 2020

Ali Raza
Affiliation:
Lahore University of Management Sciences, Pakistan
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The fifth chapter, ‘Entangled Histories’, starts from the question of erasure. I examine how the memorialization of revolutionary pasts in India and Pakistan has erased a history of entanglements between the Left and other political and intellectual strands. Specifically, I take the case of Darshan Singh Pheruman, remembered today as a martyr who gave his life for the Sikh Panth. Through his life, I examine how the Akali movement, a Sikh socio-religious political movement in the 1920s, blended in with the communist movement in the Punjab. These intersections provide a reminder of how ideas did not observe strict ideological boundaries, boundaries that only seem unbridgeable in nationalist and communitarian erasures of revolutionary pasts. This chapter offers a portrait of the relative fluidity between ‘communist’, ‘communitarian’, and ‘nationalist’ politics of the interwar era. In doing so, it sketches an era of political possibilities that later gave way to a bitterly contested and fractured landscape with hardened political and ideological boundaries.

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Revolutionary Pasts
Communist Internationalism in Colonial India
, pp. 150 - 176
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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  • Entangled Histories
  • Ali Raza, Lahore University of Management Sciences, Pakistan
  • Book: Revolutionary Pasts
  • Online publication: 13 March 2020
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108693875.005
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  • Entangled Histories
  • Ali Raza, Lahore University of Management Sciences, Pakistan
  • Book: Revolutionary Pasts
  • Online publication: 13 March 2020
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108693875.005
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  • Entangled Histories
  • Ali Raza, Lahore University of Management Sciences, Pakistan
  • Book: Revolutionary Pasts
  • Online publication: 13 March 2020
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108693875.005
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