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The Rancierian Revolutionary? Bhagat Singh and the Politics of the Dead in Modern India - Chris Moffat, India’s Revolutionary Inheritance: Politics and the Promise of Bhagat Singh (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2019, 292 p.)

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Chris Moffat, India’s Revolutionary Inheritance: Politics and the Promise of Bhagat Singh (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2019, 292 p.)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 March 2021

Shozab Raza*
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Department of Anthropology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, [shozab.raza@mail.utoronto.ca]
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