Join us as we welcome Dr Chris Moffat as he talks about his book, “India’s Revolutionary Inheritance: Politics and the Promise of Bhagat Singh“
The programme begins at 8:00pm with Salaat and Qur’an recitation. The main talk begins at about 8:30pm.
Synopsis of the book:
What do anti-colonial histories mean for politics in contemporary India? How can we understand a political terrain that appears crowded with the dead, heroic figures from past struggles who call the living to account and demand action? What role do these ‘afterlives’ play in the inauguration of new politics and the fashioning of possible futures? In this engaging and innovative analysis of anti-colonial afterlives in modern South Asia, Chris Moffat crafts a framework that takes the dead seriously – not as passive entities, ceremonially invoked, but as active interlocutors and instigators in the present. Focusing on the iconic revolutionary martyr Bhagat Singh (1907–1931), Moffat establishes the problem of inheritance as central to the forms and futures of democracy in this postcolonial polity. Tracing Bhagat Singh’s revenant presence in India today, he demonstrates how living communities are animated by a sense of obligation, duty or debt to the dead.
We will also be streaming the programme live on our YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/sicmtv
We plan to continue live streaming for only a few more weeks. We do hope that you will join us in person.
If you would like to recite Qur’an during the programme, please do let us know: email us: info@sicm.org.uk
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