Shyamji Krishnavarma

‘[An] outstanding and compelling study of the nationalist and revolutionary Shyamji Krishnavarma [that] throws much light on a critical phase of Indian nationalism when [. . .] Indian liberalism was transformed into radicalism and then violent anti-colonialism.’— C. A. Bayly, University of Cambridge, UK

‘[The] book restores debates about the utility of violence to the historiography of Indian nationalist thought [. . .] problematising the binaries of east and west, cosmopolitanism and nationalism, that have ordered recent histories of transnational networks.’ — Kama Maclean, University of New South Wales, Australia

‘Fischer-Tiné paints a compelling portrait of Krishnavarma — intellectual, exile, nationalist revolutionary.’ — David Arnold, University of Warwick, UK

Harald Fischer-Tiné's book is worth reading for many reasons. It is not only giving back a long time forgotten intellectual and revolutionary his historical role, thereby saving him from 'safronisation'. It also widens the understanding of the many facets of the international anti-colonial struggle in the decades before the Great War, at the same time emphasizing its many limitations. — Amit Das Gupta