Author : Chris Moffat
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 31,70 MB
Release : 2019-01-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1108496903
Interrogates the explosive potential of revolutionary anti-colonial 'afterlives' in contemporary Indian politics and society.
Author : Chris Moffat
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 19,64 MB
Release : 2019-01-10
Category : History
ISBN : 1108750052
What do anti-colonial histories mean for politics in contemporary India? How can we understand a political terrain that appears crowded with the dead, heroic figures from past struggles who call the living to account and demand action? What role do these 'afterlives' play in the inauguration of new politics and the fashioning of possible futures? In this engaging and innovative analysis of anti-colonial afterlives in modern South Asia, Chris Moffat crafts a framework that takes the dead seriously - not as passive entities, ceremonially invoked, but as active interlocutors and instigators in the present. Focusing on the iconic revolutionary martyr Bhagat Singh (1907–1931), Moffat establishes the problem of inheritance as central to the forms and futures of democracy in this postcolonial polity. Tracing Bhagat Singh's revenant presence in India today, he demonstrates how living communities are animated by a sense of obligation, duty or debt to the dead.
Author : Joyce Appleby
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 31,3 MB
Release : 2001-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0674006631
Details the experiences of the first generation of Americans who inherited the independent country, discussing the lives, businesses, and religious freedoms that transformed the country in its early years.
Author : Steven Wilkinson
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 39,88 MB
Release : 2015-02-12
Category : History
ISBN : 0674728807
Steven I. Wilkinson explores how India has succeeded in keeping the military out of politics, when so many other countries have failed. He uncovers the command and control strategies, the careful ethnic balancing, and the political, foreign policy, and strategic decisions that have made the army safe for Indian democracy.
Author : Ali Raza
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 30,35 MB
Release : 2020-04-02
Category : History
ISBN : 1108481841
Raza traces the anti-colonial struggles of Indian revolutionaries in the context of Communist Internationalism during the last decades of the British Raj.
Author : Gurcharan Das
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 41,30 MB
Release : 2002-04-09
Category : History
ISBN : 0385720742
India today is a vibrant free-market democracy, a nation well on its way to overcoming decades of widespread poverty. The nation’s rise is one of the great international stories of the late twentieth century, and in India Unbound the acclaimed columnist Gurcharan Das offers a sweeping economic history of India from independence to the new millennium. Das shows how India’s policies after 1947 condemned the nation to a hobbled economy until 1991, when the government instituted sweeping reforms that paved the way for extraordinary growth. Das traces these developments and tells the stories of the major players from Nehru through today. As the former CEO of Proctor & Gamble India, Das offers a unique insider’s perspective and he deftly interweaves memoir with history, creating a book that is at once vigorously analytical and vividly written. Impassioned, erudite, and eminently readable, India Unbound is a must for anyone interested in the global economy and its future.
Author : Srikrishan 'Sarala'
Publisher : Prabhat Prakashan
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 27,51 MB
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9788187100188
From Plassey to Goa: The Unveiling of India's Revolutionary Struggle is an extensively researched and captivating series that delves into the long and arduous journey of India's fight for freedom from foreign rule. Spanning from the Battle of Plassey in 1757 to the Liberation of Goa in 1961, this series redefines the timeline of the struggle, shedding light on the lesser-known revolutionaries who shaped its course. Going beyond dry historical facts, the narrative unveils the human aspect of these heroic men and women, their unwavering commitment, and their willingness to sacrifice everything for their motherland. The book portrays harrowing tales of torture, unimaginable suffering, and the indomitable spirit of those who faced the gallows chanting Vande Mataram. With its wealth of research and compelling storytelling, this work serves as an invaluable resource for researchers and a fascinating read for history enthusiasts interested in the Indian freedom movement. This book is a comprehensive account of India's freedom struggle, from the Battle of Plassey to the Liberation of Goa. It covers the heroism, suffering, and sacrifice of the revolutionaries, as well as the Vande Mataram movement and other historical research. It also looks at the human aspect of the struggle for freedom, and the impact of India's independence on the Indian revolutionaries and colonial rule.
Author : Aparna Vaidik
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 25,30 MB
Release : 2021-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : 1009032380
Set in British India of the 1920s, Waiting for Swaraj follows the cadence and tempo of the lives of the intrepid revolutionaries of the Hindustan Republican Association and the Hindustan Republican Socialist Association who challenged the British Raj. It seeks to comprehend the revolutionaries' self-conception - what did it mean to be a revolutionary? How did a revolutionary live out the vision of revolution, what was their everyday like, did life in revolution transform an individual, what was their truth and how was it different from that of the others? The book locates the essence of being a revolutionary not just in the spectacular moments when the revolutionaries threw a bomb or carried out a political assassination, but in the everyday conversations, banter, anecdotes, and in the stray fragments of the life in underground. It demonstrates how 'waiting' was the crucible that forged a revolutionary.
Author : Dr. Bhawan Singh Rana
Publisher : Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 45,19 MB
Release : 2014-02-11
Category :
ISBN : 9350838672
Immortal martyr Bhagat Singh had inherited from his family an irrepessible conviction in the unity and freedom of his motherland. Though born in a well-to-do family, he opted for a revolutionary path full of thorns, due to this conviction. The entire Indian soil was his goddess, the path of revolution was his worship and the unity and freedom of his motherland was the aim of his worship, for which he sacrificed his life. His personality was an unprecedented combination of deep scholarship and rare faculty of reasoning. His directed this trait of his personality to the final goal of unity and freedom of his motherland. The visionary of India's golden future, martyr Bhagat Singh's ideals will continue to inspire all countrymen in an invaluable manner.
Author : Satvinder S. Juss
Publisher : Penguin Random House India Private Limited
Page : 483 pages
File Size : 44,26 MB
Release : 2022-08-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9354926746
The continual tussles over Bhagat Singh's identity, even more amplified of late, are a testament to the heroic status the man continues to hold in the annals of the Indian freedom struggle. Despite him having addressed his views on religion, politics and activism, there are many willing to forge completely new narratives of his life, and many more willing to believe them. A timely antidote, this meticulously researched biography is an expansive foray into the life of Bhagat Singh. The volume deliberates upon his family from before when he was born, examining along the way the role that various episodes, policies and people played in shaping the identity of a legendary revolutionary, while also delving into his opinions on important questions of the time. It shines a bright light on the oft-ignored personal influences that made Singh who he was, along with the issue of his contested identity in today's politics. This is the definitive Bhagat Singh biography of our times.
