Between Love and Freedom
The Revolutionary in the Hindi Novel

Between Love and Freedom interprets the figure of the revolutionary in the Hindi novel by establishing its lineage in representative Bengali novels, as well as in the contending moralities of Mahatma Gandhi and Bhagat Singh on the idea of violence. It reveals how conventional social realism and emergent modernist modes were brought together in the novelistic tradition by extending the political ideal of anti-colonial revolution into domains of sexual desire and subjective expression, especially in the works of Agyeya, Jainendra, and Yashpal. This work will deeply interest scholars and students of literature, modern Indian history, Hindi, and political science.

Foreword Udaya Kumar. The Revolutionary: Introspection and Extrospection. 1. Strands from the Bengali Literary Heritage: The Construction of the Moral Revolutionary 2. Bhagat Singh and Gandhi: Competing Moralities of Revolutionary Sacrifice 3. Jainendra Kumar and the Hindi Novelistic Tradition: The Political Revolutionary in the Social, Filial, and Affective Spheres 4. Agyeya: Enmeshments of Revolutionary Subjectivity 5. Yashpal’s Novels: Revolutionaries, Social Relations, and the Reconsolidation of the Realist Narrative. Conclusion. Bibliography. About the Author. Index

Nikhil Govind is Assistant Professor at the Manipal Centre for Philosophy and Humanities, Manipal University.