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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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