[Wamvan] Decolonizing Anarchism: An Antiauthoritarian History of India’s Liberation Struggle

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Decolonizing Anarchism: An Antiauthoritarian History of India’s
Liberation Struggle
Posted on December 28, 2011


Decolonizing Anarchism  examines the history of South Asian struggles
against colonialism and neocolonialism, highlighting lesser-known
dissidents as well as iconic figures. What emerges is an alternate
narrative of decolonization, in which liberation is not defined by the
achievement of a nation-state. Author Maia Ramnath suggests that the
anarchist vision of an alternate society closely echoes the concept of
total decolonization on the political, economic, social, cultural, and
psychological planes. Decolonizing Anarchism  facilitates more than a
reinterpretation of the history of anticolonialism; it also supplies
insight into the meaning of anarchism itself.


“Maia Ramnath offers a refreshingly different perspective on
anticolonial movements in India, not only by focusing on
little-remembered anarchist exiles such as Har Dayal, Mukerji and
Acharya but more important, highlighting the persistent trend that
sought to strengthen autonomous local communities against the modern
nation-state. A superbly original book.”—Partha Chatterjee, author of
Lineages of Political Society: Studies in Post-colonial Democracy


“[Ramnath] audaciously reframes the dominant narrative of Indian
radicalism by detailing its explosive and ongoing symbiosis with
decolonial anarchism.”—Dylan Rodríguez, author of Suspended
Apocalypse: White Supremacy, Genocide, and the Filipino Condition


Maia Ramnath is a teacher, writer, activist, and dancer/aerialist
living in New York City. She is the author of The Haj to Utopia: How
the Ghadar Movement Charted Global Radicalism and Attempted to
Overthrow the British Empire—in many ways a companion volume to this
one. She is currently a member of the Institute for Anarchist Studies
board and Historians against War steering committee.

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