Not the best time to break this news, but my book was (finally) published this week by @CambridgeUP. Its been years (and years) in the making. It’s been a labour of love. I don’t know if it’s any good, but I hope the characters in this book make your day as they did mine.

On that note, I thought I should also post a few pictures alongside the book cover to give you a sense of what this world looked like. The first picture is of a Punjabi communist publication. The Kirti (Worker) was the flagship journal of the Kirti Kisan Party, founded in 1927.

The second is from the funeral of Ghadar revolutionary, Baba Jawala Singh. He joined the Ghadar Party in California before travelling to India in 1914 to participate in an ill-fated rebellion against the British Raj. Served two decades in Montogomery (Sahiwal) jail.

How about another character? Meet Dada Amir Haider Khan. Born in a small village near Pindi, Dada travelled the world as a lascar in the 1910s. Later jumped ship in NYC and found work in Detroit. Eventually left for Moscow via the CPUSA in the 1920s in search of revolution.

Moscow in the 1920s was the mecca for world revolution. Countless men and women from across the world gravitated to Moscow in their hopes for a new future. Meet Suhasini Chattopadhyay, sister of Sarojini Naidu, Moscow graduate, and the first woman member of the CPI.

I could go on, but I will stop here. The list of these extraordinary figures is endless. This is a story of dreamers and hopeless romantics who traversed the globe in their search for liberation and revolution. It’s a story of a dream that seems all too distant in our

disaffected present. And so, I can’t help but think of all those figures who made that history, who created that world and made it alive with possibility. I wonder what they would have made of our world and I've no doubt that they would've insisted that another world is possible.

Grateful to everyone who’s helped me along the way. To paraphrase another expression, it takes a village to write a book. Deeply thankful to friends, family, colleagues, and students. You know who you are. This book bears the marks of their ideas, encouragement, and good company.

Finally, you can check out the book here: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108693875. You can also download the introduction (Revolutionary Pasts) from the link. And I am of course happy to send a PDF of the book to whoever is interested.