The Indian Revolutionary Movement in Europe, 1905–1918
This research project traces the Indian revolutionary movement in Europe in the early decades of the twentieth century. Focusing on anticolonial alliances, socialist solidarities, and transnational movements across Britain, France, Switzerland, Germany, and Sweden, the project examines those metropolitan centres, the Indians who lived there and agitated for Indian freedom from exile, and those who, while crossing borders, changed the political landscapes of Europe and, from afar, India. It argues that these metropolitan centres were overwritten with the language of colonialism but also, simultaneously, spaces of anticolonialism, meaning that the spectre of anticolonialism guided the self-identification of these Indian revolutionaries in exile as well as their social and political interactions.