Love and Revolution in the Twentieth-Century Colonial and Postcolonial World

G. Arunima is Professor in the Centre for Women’s Studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University, India. She has researched and published on both historical and modern contexts in India, focusing particularly on cultural, visual and material texts, and rethinking the politics of the contemporary.Patricia Hayes is a National Research Foundation and South African Research Chair of Visual History and Theory at the Centre for Humanities Research at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa. She has published extensively on history and colonial and documentary photography in southern Africa. Premesh Lalu is Convenor of the Communicating the Humanities project at the Centre for Humanities Research at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa. As one of the founding directors of the Centre for Humanities Research, he has raised the profile of the humanities both in the university and nationally. His publications addresscolonial archives, violence, and more recently, aesthetics and the technical becoming of the human.

"This book brings love to a history of social movements … and contributing to sociological discussions of emotion in political movements. … The rich case studies … offer much to think with that will satisfy readers looking both for histories of emotion and for possibilities for deco­lonial futures. … the intersection of histories of emotion with South Asian and African histories offers a welcome addition to a growing history of global feelings.” (Katie Barclay, Emotions: History, Culture, Society, Vol. 6 (1), 2022)

• Chapter 1. Love and Revolution: An Introduction; G. Arunima, Patricia Hayes and Premesh Lalu.- Part I. Intensities: Writing / Aesthetic / Cinematic.- Chapter 2. “Everything built on moonshine”: Love and Revolution in Iqbal’s Islamic Modernist Poetry and Faiz’s Socialist Verse; Javed Majeed.- Chapter 3. Sadness, as such...; Premesh Lalu.- Chapter 4. Mapiko: Fragments of Revolutionary Time; Paolo Israel.- Part II. Depletions: Family / Party / Intimacy.- Chapter 5. Caste, Intimacy and Family: The Experiences of Slave Castes in Kerala; Sanal Mohan.- Chapter 6. Making and Challenging a Biographic Order: National Longing, Political Belonging and the Politics of Affect in a South African Liberation Movement; Ciraj Rassool.- Chapter 7. The Family Romance of the South African Revolution; Jon Soske.- Chapter 8: The Romantic Manifesto: Gender and ‘Outlaw’ Emotions in the Naxalbari Movement; Mallarika Sinha Roy.- Part III. Love / Sacrifice / Law.- Chapter 9. Bhagat Singh: Sacrifice, Sufferingand the Tradition of the Oppressed; Simona Sawhney.- Chapter 10. "Love is Stronger in Prison than Outside": The Intimate Politics of Independence in the Congo; Pedro Monaville.- Chapter 11. Political Funerals in South Africa: Photography , History, and the Refusal of Light (1960s–80s); Patricia Hayes.- Chapter 12. The Love Commandment: Affect in the Time of Dissent and Democracy; G. Arunima.