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The years between the First and Second World Wars comprise a critical moment in the history of the world. In the aftermath of the First World War and the Bolshevik Revolution, individuals and countries sought new solutions and blueprints for a world of greater stability, equality, and interdependency. Their divergent ends and objectives were held together, if temporarily, by a euphoria for the vastness and integratedness of the world and the desire and optimism to remake it and shape the future of humanity.
This volume highlights this period in the political and social mobilization that comprises the “internationalist moment,” through the lens of South Asians' interactions with a wider world and the wider world's interactions with South Asia. The essays contribute to a growing, but as yet, inadequate field of the intellectual history of South Asia.
Straddling the International and the Regional: The Punjabi Left in the Interwar Period
Straddling the International and the Regional: The Punjabi Left in the Interwar Period
Assuming he read it, one can well imagine the Governor of Massachusetts, Alvan T. Fuller, feeling a little bemused at receiving a cable in early August 1927 from Amritsar, a town in central Punjab. The cable had been sent from the proprietors of the Kirti, the flagship journal of the Kirti Kisan Party (Workers and Peasants Party, KKP). The Kirti magazine condemned the sham trial and the impending execution of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti and “most emphatically” urged their release.1
Sacco and Vanzetti were two Italian-Americans anarchists who were arrested, tried, convicted, and executed over a murder they almost
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