Hostname: page-component-78c5997874-j824f Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-11-15T05:40:20.331Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

A Revolutionary History of Interwar India: Violence Image, Voice and Text. By Kama Maclean . pp. xx, 342. London, 2015.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 September 2015

A.V.M. Horton
A.V.M. Horton*
Affiliation:
Royal Asiatic Societyavmhorton@hotmail.com
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Abstract

An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.
Image of the first page of this content. For PDF version, please use the ‘Save PDF’ preceeding this image.'
Type
Book Review
Information
Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society , Volume 26 , Issue 3 , July 2016 , pp. 525 - 528
Copyright
Copyright © The Royal Asiatic Society 2015 

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

1 Later Lord Halifax (1881–1959). Viceroy of India, 1926–31. Foreign Secretary, UK, 1938–40. Ambassador to the USA, 1941–6.

2 Furthermore, the Bhagat Singh genre of film does not appear to have made any impact at the Cannes or Venice festivals.

3 But the Congress did not appear to mourn with the bereaved relatives of J. P. Saunders. No doubt the family would have gained immense comfort and consolation from the notion that the murder was, in the author's words, “an act performed with relative detachment and with discernible regret” (p. 230).

4 Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters (London, 1970), volume IV, pp. 523–4. And perhaps it was just as well that Gandhi never had to test the efficacy of ‘non-violence’ against an imperial power such as wartime Japan. It is also noteworthy that, whereas the HSRA had a membership barely reaching three figures, the all-volunteer Indian Army numbered 2.5 million in 1945 (JRAS, July 2015:526).

5 BBC News (online), 14 March 2015; accessed at 1149h BST on Saturday 18 July 2015.