Haj to Utopia How the Ghadar Movement Charted Global Radicalism and Attempted to Overthrow the British Empire

Name: Haj to Utopia How the Ghadar Movement Charted Global Radicalism and Attempted to Overthrow the British Empire
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ISBN: 9780520269552

ISBN-10: 0520269551

ISBN-13: 9780520269552

Edition: 2011

Authors: Maia Ramnath

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In The 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…

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List price: $34.95
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 12/1/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 332
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English



List of Maps


Acknowledgments


Abbreviations


Introduction



"The Air of Freedom": Ghadar in America



Our Name Is Our Work: The Syndicalist Ghadar



Enemies of Enemies...: The Nationalist Ghadar



and Friends: The Republican Ghadar



Toilers of the East: The Communist Ghadar



"Dear Muhammedan Brothers": The Khilafatist Ghadar



Lai Salaams: Ghadar and the Bolshevik Muhajirin


Epilogue


Notes


Bibliography


Index