Gentlemanly Terrorists

Durba Ghosh is Associate Professor at Cornell University, New York. Her research interests focus on understanding the history of British colonialism on the Indian subcontinent, the history of colonial governance and law, gender, sexuality, and the tensions between security and democracy in modern liberal democracies, such as India and the United States. Previous works include Sex and the Family in Colonial India: The Making of Empire (Cambridge, 2006), Decentring Empire: Britain, India and the Transcolonial World (co-edited with Dane Kennedy, 2006), and a number of articles and chapters for the Oxford Handbook of the History of Terrorism, the American Historical Review, Gender and History, and Modern Asian Studies.

'Ghosh (Cornell) explores this story in her excellent monograph, massively researched and clearly written. Recommended.' R. A. Callahan, Choice

• Introduction; 1. The reforms of 1919: Montagu-Chelmsford, the Rowlatt Act, Jails Commission, and the Royal Amnesty; 2. The history of revolutionary terrorism through autobiography; 3. After Chauri Chaura: the revival and repression of revolutionary terrorism; 4. After the Chittagong Armoury Raid: revolutionary terrorism in the 1930s; 5. From political prisoner to security prisoner; 6. Revolutionary autobiographies: postcolonial tellings of nationalist history; Conclusion.