Through the framework of “friendship” defined by Judith Butler, Leela Gandhi, and Vanessa Smith, this essay tracks the relationship between Trailokya Nath Chakrabarty, a Bengali revolutionary terrorist who spent three decades in British jails in colonial India and Francis Lowman, a police officer who was responsible for his imprisonment. Informed by Chakrabarty’s autobiography, the essay shows that terrorism and intimacy were closely linked. Even though the revolutionary terrorist and jailor opposed one another in violent ways, these relationships were grounded in mutual recognition and built on what (following Butler) is called the “fundamental sociality of colonialism.”

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恐怖分子和他的狱卒：友谊和亲密的难题

这篇文章通过朱迪思·巴特勒、里拉·甘地和凡妮莎·史密斯定义的“友谊”框架，追踪了在印度殖民地英国监狱度过了 30 年的孟加拉革命恐怖分子 Trailokya Nath Chakrabarty 与警察 Francis Lowman 之间的关系。谁应对他的监禁负责。根据查克拉巴蒂的自传，这篇文章表明恐怖主义和亲密关系密切相关。尽管革命恐怖分子和狱卒以暴力方式相互反对，但这些关系建立在相互承认的基础上，并建立在（继巴特勒之后）所谓的“殖民主义的基本社会性”之上。