Soundings in Modern South Asian History

Soundings in Modern South Asian History, edited by D. A. Low, is a wide-ranging collection of essays that probes the complexity of India’s political and social transformation in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The book opens with the 1907 travels of Keir Hardie, the British Labour M.P., whose encounters with India’s nationalist leaders reveal both the commonalities and striking regional contrasts in political life at the time. Hardie’s meetings with Bengali bhadralok elit...