In this essay, I will discuss a conflation of knowledge and demands
for political reform in mid-nineteenth-century India.1 At the centre
of my discussion is an objection to the often-reiterated argument
that emphasizes how colonial forms of knowledge underpinned the
British regime in its bid to control and subjugate Indians. Rather, I
would…[Read more]

In this article I relate Indian revolutionaries Virendranath Chattopadhyaya’s and Lala Har Dayal’s experiences of exile in Sweden to recent attempts to reformulate perspectives on Indian anti-colonial protest. These attempts have in various ways focused on the global dimension of Indian anti-colonialism, showing how displaced Indian int…[Read more]

By the turn of the twentieth century a distinct ‘social domain’ – along with its
constituent parts, problems and internal dynamics – was turned into a political entity, and
a concern for state bureaucracies existed across the industrializing world. Specific motivations
for this trend may have varied from location to location, but include…[Read more]