Chapter 4 considers how a sense of responsibility toward Bhagat Singh – to his life, death and sacrifice – is mediated by and articulated through a relationship with the revolutionary’s fragmented remains: those surviving texts, letters, pamphlets, manifestos and notes attributed to his hand. I am particularly interested in historicist efforts to uncover the ‘real’ Bhagat Singh in the decades after Indian independence – to ‘rescue’ him from sentimental reverie or political appropriation, and in so doing tame the anarchic potentiality of his death into stable and reliable ‘facts’. The chapter surveys the revival of Bhagat Singh as model for revolutionary action following the Maoist Naxalbari rebellion of 1967. It explores how the writings of Bhagat Singh were wielded in Punjab throughout the 1970s and 1980s to critique both Naxalite and Khalistani (Sikh separatist) violence. It then considers how various factions of the Communist Party of India have positioned themselves as guardians of Bhagat Singh’s legacy, animating the martyr as a model socialist subject whose zeal and charisma continue to provide a link to possible communist futures.