ABSTRACT
Between Love and Freedom interprets the figure of the revolutionary in the Hindi novel by establishing its lineage in representative Bengali novels, as well as in the contending moralities of Mahatma Gandhi and Bhagat Singh on the idea of violence. It reveals how conventional social realism and emergent modernist modes were brought together in the novelistic tradition by extending the political ideal of anti-colonial revolution into domains of sexual desire and subjective expression, especially in the works of Agyeya, Jainendra, and Yashpal. This work will deeply interest scholars and students of literature, modern Indian history, Hindi, and political science.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter 1|26 pages
Strands from the Bengali Literary Heritage
The Construction of the Moral Revolutionary
chapter 2|28 pages
Bhagat Singh and Gandhi
Competing Moralities Regarding the Question of Revolutionary Sacrifice
chapter 3|27 pages
Jainendra Kumar and the Hindi Novelistic Tradition
The Political Revolutionary in the Social, Filial, and Affective Spheres
chapter 5|24 pages
Yashpal's Novels
Revolutionaries, Social Relations, and the Reconsolidation of the Realist Narrative
