In this episode of Books@HSS, Nauman Faizi hosts Ali Raza, and they talk about his book, Revolutionary Pasts: Communist Internationalism in Colonial India.

Ali Raza is an Associate Professor of History at LUMS University, Lahore, whose work focuses on South Asia. He received his DPhil from the University of Oxford and was a postdoctoral fellow at the Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient in Berlin. His research and teaching interests include the social and intellectual history of South Asia, comparative colonialisms, anti-colonialism/decolonization, and post-colonial theory. He is the author of Revolutionary Pasts: Communist Internationalism in Colonial India (Cambridge University Press, 2020). His book narrates the lives, geographies, dreams, and anti-colonial struggles of Indian revolutionaries and how they sought to remake the world. The book was shortlisted for the Royal Historical Society's Gladstone Book Prize and the Karwaan Book Award.

Nauman Faizi is an Associate Professor of Religion at LUMS University, Lahore. He is the author of 𝘎𝘰𝘥, 𝘚𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘚𝘦𝘭𝘧: 𝘔𝘶𝘩𝘢𝘮𝘮𝘢𝘥 𝘐𝘲𝘣𝘢𝘭 '𝘴 𝘙𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘰𝘧 𝘙𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘨𝘪𝘰𝘶𝘴 𝘛𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩𝘵 (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2021). His research interests include philosophy of religion, philosophical and scriptural hermeneutics, semiotics, and questions at the interface of religion and modernity.