The term `revolutionary' is used liberally in histories of Indian anticolonialism, but scarcely defined. Implicitly understood, it functions as a signpost or a badge, generously conferred in hagiographies, loosely invoked in historiography, and strategically deployed in contemporary political contests. It is timely, then, to ask the question: Who counts as a `revolutionary' in South Asia? How can we read `the revolutionary' in Indian political formations? And what does it really mean to be `revolutionary' in turbulent late colonial times? This volume takes a biographical approach to the...