Revolutionaries, coercive institutions and the crisis of collaboration in interwar India

Earlier generations of historians interpreted revolutionary politics of the interwar period within a paradigm of failure, on the basis that it did not bring about an immediate shift in the colonial dominance in South Asia. Following the ‘revolutionary turn’ in South Asian history, scholars have sugg...

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Main Author: Maclean, Kama (Author)
Format: Article (Journal)
Language:English
Published: October 2024
In: The Indian economic and social history review
Year: 2024, Volume: 61, Issue: 4, Pages: 437-461
ISSN:0973-0893
DOI:10.1177/00194646241285287
Online Access:Verlag, lizenzpflichtig, Volltext: https://doi.org/10.1177/00194646241285287
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