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

Description

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. Praise for Decolonizing

Anarchism: “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

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