Shyamji Krishnavarma Sanskrit, Sociology and Anti-Imperialism [Paperback]

This book is the first critical biography on Shyamji Krishnavarma  scholar, journalist and national revolutionary who lived in exile outside India from 1897 to 1930. His ideas were crucial in the creation of an extremist wing of anti-imperial nationalism.

The work delves into a fascinating range of issues such as colonialism and knowledge, political violence, cosmopolitanism, and diaspora. Lucidly written, and with an insightful analysis of Krishnavarmas life and times, this will greatly interest scholars and researchers of modern Indian history, politics, the nationalist movement, as well as the informed lay reader.

Plates. Abbreviations. Glossary. Acknowledgements. Introduction. 1.Knowledge 2.Cosmopolitanism 3.Violence 4.Conclusion and Epilogue. Bibliography. About the Author. Index

[An] outstanding and compelling study of the nationalist and revolutionary Shyamji Krishnavarma [that] throws much light on a critical phase of Indian nationalism when [. . .] Indian liberalism was transformed into radicalism and then violent anti-colonialism. C. A. Bayly, University of Cambridge, UK

[The] book restores debates about the utility of violence to the historiography of Indian nationalist thought [. . .] problematising the binaries of east and west, cosmopolitanism and nationalism, that have ordered recent histories of transnational networks.  Kama Maclean, University of New South Wales, Australia

Fischer-Tin? paints a compelling portrait of Krishnavarma  intellectual, exile, nationalist revolutionary.  David Arnold, University of Warwick, UK

Harald Fischer-Tin?'s book is worth reading for many reasons. ls'