Conclusion

Abstract

This study has had the modest aim of probing one of the many spaces in which forms of anticolonial nationalism, other than the legislative, developed. In the Indian press, it developed as a structure of feeling. Here notions were intuited, negative states of emotion were made public and given historical explanations. They existed in tension with proleptic imaginings of a future of sovereignty. The decades of experimentation, in thought and feeling, laid the groundwork for a public, participatory nationalism. It was shot through with patriotism as much as it was shot through with the notion of the public, other histories of self determination, and rhetorical contests.