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Article: Echoes of Ghadr: Lala Har Dayal and the time of anticolonialism

TitleEchoes of Ghadr: Lala Har Dayal and the time of anticolonialism
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Issue Date2014
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, 2014, v. 34, n. 1, p. 9-23 How to Cite?
AbstractThis essay reads Lala Har Dayal's Hints for Self-Culture (1934) in order to highlight how anticolonial agitator Lala Har Dayal imagines a history appropriate for a future anticolonial utopia. By simultaneously tracking Har Dayal's "promiscuous afterlives" in Punjab in the 1930s and offering a close reading of Hints for Self-Culture, Elam argues that the writer offers an insurgent political theory of utopia heralded under the sign of anticolonial critique. In the case of Hints for Self-Culture, this takes the form of a radical self-making process toward the creation of a future utopian project. In Har Dayal's hands, however, such a project requires a doubling back of history; a political project that torques the present back onto its impossible pasts. Hints for Self-Culture does this in two significant moves, in ways that the bulk of this essay explores. First, Har Dayal returns to nineteenth-century philosopher Herbert Spencer in order to produce a radical self-making project for the present. Second, Har Dayal offers a utopian vision of a future World-State, which, as the product of radical self-making, is a radical world-making project that repeatedly glances backward. At each of these stages, a palimpsestic utopia emerges, with the figures of the past not fully erased but having morphed into something of use. © 2014 by Duke University Press.
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dc.contributor.authorDaniel Elam, J.-
dc.date.accessioned2019-09-27T08:29:32Z-
dc.date.available2019-09-27T08:29:32Z-
dc.date.issued2014-
dc.identifier.citationComparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, 2014, v. 34, n. 1, p. 9-23-
dc.identifier.issn1089-201X-
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dc.description.abstractThis essay reads Lala Har Dayal's Hints for Self-Culture (1934) in order to highlight how anticolonial agitator Lala Har Dayal imagines a history appropriate for a future anticolonial utopia. By simultaneously tracking Har Dayal's "promiscuous afterlives" in Punjab in the 1930s and offering a close reading of Hints for Self-Culture, Elam argues that the writer offers an insurgent political theory of utopia heralded under the sign of anticolonial critique. In the case of Hints for Self-Culture, this takes the form of a radical self-making process toward the creation of a future utopian project. In Har Dayal's hands, however, such a project requires a doubling back of history; a political project that torques the present back onto its impossible pasts. Hints for Self-Culture does this in two significant moves, in ways that the bulk of this essay explores. First, Har Dayal returns to nineteenth-century philosopher Herbert Spencer in order to produce a radical self-making project for the present. Second, Har Dayal offers a utopian vision of a future World-State, which, as the product of radical self-making, is a radical world-making project that repeatedly glances backward. At each of these stages, a palimpsestic utopia emerges, with the figures of the past not fully erased but having morphed into something of use. © 2014 by Duke University Press.-
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