Lajpat Rai beyond the Hindutva construct
Business Standard|March 29, 2024
For many Indians, Lala Lajpat Rai remains one pillar of the nationalist triumvirate Lal-Bal-Pal-Lala Lajpat Rai, Bal Gangadhar Tilak, and Bipin Chandra Pal.
NILANJAN MUKHOPADHYAY

Fewer Indians would think of the Lala, or Lajpat Rai, as the person whose death, after being brutally assaulted while protesting the arrival of Simon Commission in Lahore, was the trigger for Bhagat Singh to seek revenge and thereafter walk to the gallows.

Even fewer Indians, including this reviewer, would have wondered for long why the radical Singh, influenced by Marxist thought, would have taken retribution on the British for their attack on a nationalist, considered by many as an antecedent of later Hindu Nationalist ideologues, especially Vinayak Damodar Savarkar. When the book's full title was first shared, I was struck by the coinage, "Ideas of Nationhood"-which clearly indicated that Lajpat Rai was possibly guided by multiple opinions, each professing a different view of nationhood. What were these and how were they strung within his persona?

Vanya Vaidehi Bhargav has set out to address these questions by structuring the book around the complex and evolving political vision and perspectives of the nationalist leader in various phases of his long political career. Starting in the 1880s and continuing till his death in 1928, the book has been split into four phases.

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