Progressive Politics, Poetic Revolutions: Literary Imagination, Textual Affiliations, and Indian Decolonization, c. 1934-1989

Using an archive of a group of self-avowedly "progressive", left-wing, peripatetic, anticolonial Indian activist-intellectuals and artists, this PTD explores how writers, poets, artists, performers, painters, sculptors, filmmakers, and architects sought to envision a world free from the legacies of colonial rule, imperial war, fascist repression and indigenous orthodoxies and institutions. In particular, this PTD lays the conceptual, theoretical and methodological domain on which this dissertation is staged providing the introduction to the work that follows444293988Using an archive of a group of self-avowedly "progressive", left-wing, peripatetic, anticolonial Indian activist-intellectuals and artists, this PTD explores how writers, poets, artists, performers, painters, sculptors, filmmakers, and architects sought to envision a world free from the legacies of colonial rule, imperial war, fascist repression and indigenous orthodoxies and institutions. In particular, this PTD lays the conceptual, theoretical and methodological domain on which this dissertation is staged providing the introduction to the work that follows