Abstract

This article traces the biographies of Virendranath Chattopadhyaya, Agnes Smedley and Somerset Maugham to map a global network of Indian nationalist resistance to the British Empire. Maugham and Smedley fictionalized their experiences with the British Secret Intelligence Service and the Ghadar Party, respectively. I analyse the representation of Chattopadhyaya in Smedley's autobiographical novel Daughter of Earth and Somerset Maugham's short story ‘Giulia Lazzari’ to consider the limitations of fiction in the production of historical knowledge of the Indian nationalist movement abroad.

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