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Record Nr.

UNINA9910817909403321

Autore

Ramnath Maia <1973->

Titolo

Haj to Utopia [[electronic resource] ] : how the Ghadar movement charted global radicalism and attempted to overthrow the British empire / / Maia Ramnath

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, Calif., : University of California Press, c2011

ISBN

9786613520609

0-520-95039-9

1-280-10549-6

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (343 p.)

Collana

The California world history library ; ; no. 19

Disciplina

320.540954

Soggetti

Nationalism - History - 20th century

Social movements - History - 20th century

Political activists - History - 20th century

Social reformers - History - 20th century

Revolutionaries - History - 20th century

World politics - 1900-1918

World politics - 1919-1932

India Politics and government 20th century

India History Autonomy and independence movements

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 303-311) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Maps -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. "The Air of Freedom": Ghadar in America -- 2. Our Name Is Our Work: The Syndicalist Ghadar -- 3. Enemies of Enemies ... : The Nationalist Ghadar -- 4. ... and Friends: The Republican Ghadar -- 5. Toilers of the East: The Communist Ghadar -- 6. "Dear Muhammedan Brothers": The Khilafatist Ghadar -- 7. Lal Salaams: Ghadar and the Bolshevik Muhajirin -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

In Haj to Utopia, Maia Ramnath tells the dramatic story of Ghadar, the Indian anticolonial movement that attempted overthrow of the British Empire. Founded by South Asian immigrants in California, Ghadar-



which is translated as "mutiny"-quickly became a global presence in East Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and East Africa. Ramnath brings this epic struggle to life as she traces Ghadar's origins to the Swadeshi Movement in Bengal, its establishment of headquarters in Berkeley, California, and its fostering by anarchists in London, Paris, and Berlin. Linking Britain's declaration of war on Germany in 1914 to Ghadar's declaration of war on Britain, Ramnath vividly recounts how 8,000 rebels were deployed from around the world to take up the battle in Hindustan. Haj to Utopia demonstrates how far-flung freedom fighters managed to articulate a radical new world order out of seemingly contradictory ideas.