Table of Contents

Abbreviations; Glossary; Preface; Introduction; 1. The origins of an idea, 1905–18; 2. The signs of the times: constructing a nation; 3. Legitimizing violence; 4. The battle for domination: state repression of revolutionary pamphlets; 5. Summing up: an identity forged in battle; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.

Promotional Information

It demonstrates the effectiveness of pamphlets as a medium of propaganda within the context of political life in colonial Bengal.

About the Author

Shukla Sanyal is professor in the History Department at Presidency University, Kolkata. She also taught at the Department of History, University of Calcutta. Her research interests include the history of French Revolution with special focus on French rural society. She also works on the political culture of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Bengal specializing in the Revolutionary Nationalist movement of Bengal. Professor Sanyal is currently working on a project that explores the entangled histories of revolutionary ideologies of east and west with particular focus on twentieth-century Bengal.

Reviews

'The book made me wonder about the ways the revolutionaries may have innovated for decentralising production and expanding their circulation network in times of the steam engine … [It] notably foregrounds how the revolutionaries used the pamphlets to displace the 'anarchist' label on to the colonial masters in the ideological tussle between the two sides.' Economic and Political Weekly