The Noblest Fallen: Making and Unmaking of Bhagat Singh’s Political Thought

Download or read book The Noblest Fallen: Making and Unmaking of Bhagat Singh’s Political Thought written by Yadukrishnan P T and published by Manipal Universal Press. This book was released on 2019-05-01 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an attempt to approach Bhagat Singh’s revolutionary rhetoric as a site of perpetual motion; of constant shifts and transformations that point towards instances of conscious refashioning in one’s own politics. Throughout his life Bhagat Singh made use of multiple political ideologies for conceptualizing revolution ranging from spiritual nationalism, Gandhism, socialism, Marxism and anarchism. At some points he can also be seen merging some of the more disparate ideologies for the progression of the revolutionary cause. This book explores the changing revolutionary thought of Bhagat Singh, made explicit through his personal and political writings from the period of 1923-1931. The aforementioned shifts in his politics are demarcated through a close reading of select texts from this time period to argue for a fundamental reframing in the way we approach Bhagat Singh’s politics.