ANGUS REID urges us to understand the persecution of Jason Arday from a political and historical perspective, and to see the victim in human terms
The forensics of liberating the past
MARJORIE MAYO praises a narrative about the very different ways in which the past is being revisited and reinterpreted in India today
Madan Lal Dhingra’s statue in Amritsar, India
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JAMIE BRITTON invites readers to visit 3,500 locals as part of a marathon artistic pub crawl
JOHN GREEN welcomes a valuable and incisive analysis of a world become hyperpolitical but without the mass movement institutions to represent it
Exhumation: The Life and Death of Madan Lal Dhingra
By Leena Dhingra
Small Axes £12.99
THIS is a story with very particular contemporary relevance, given the cultural wars that are being waged by the far right at the present time.
How to face up to Britain’s colonial past? How to make sense of competing ways of remembering? And how to take account of the implications for those involved in contemporary struggles against racism and religious intolerance?
Exhumation tells the story of Madan Lal Dhingra, a young Indian freedom fighter who was convicted of assassinating a British official and accordingly hanged in 1909 at Pentonville Prison.
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