Rebels Against the Raj: Western Fighters for India’s Freedom - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Rebels Against the Raj: Western Fighters for India’s Freedom write by Ramachandra Guha. This book was released on 2022-01-20. Rebels Against the Raj: Western Fighters for India’s Freedom available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. ‘A narrative of startling originality ... As discussions of Britain’s colonial legacy become increasingly polarised, we are in ever more need of nuanced books like this one’ SAM DALRYMPLE, SPECTATOR ‘Fascinating and provocative’ LITERARY REVIEW
Rebels Against the Raj
Rebels Against the Raj - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Rebels Against the Raj write by Ramachandra Guha. This book was released on 2022-02-22. Rebels Against the Raj available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An extraordinary history of resistance and the fight for Indian independence—the little-known story of seven foreigners to India who joined the movement fighting for freedom from British colonial rule. Rebels Against the Raj tells the story of seven people who chose to struggle for a country other than their own: foreigners to India who across the late 19th to late 20th century arrived to join the freedom movement fighting for independence from British colonial rule. Of the seven, four were British, two American, and one Irish. Four men, three women. Before and after being jailed or deported they did remarkable and pioneering work in a variety of fields: journalism, social reform, education, the emancipation of women, environmentalism. This book tells their stories, each renegade motivated by idealism and genuine sacrifice; each connected to Gandhi, though some as acolytes where others found endless infuriation in his views; each understanding they would likely face prison sentences for their resistance, and likely live and die in India; each one leaving a profound impact on the region in which they worked, their legacies continuing through the institutions they founded and the generations and individuals they inspired. Through these entwined lives, wonderfully told by one of the world’s finest historians, we reach deep insights into relations between India and the West, and India’s story as a country searching for its identity and liberty beyond British colonial rule.
The Colonel Who Would Not Repent
The Colonel Who Would Not Repent - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Colonel Who Would Not Repent write by Salil Tripathi. This book was released on 2016-04-26. The Colonel Who Would Not Repent available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Bangladesh was once East Pakistan, the Muslim nation carved out of the Indian Subcontinent when it gained independence from Britain in 1947. As religion alone could not keep East Pakistan and West Pakistan together, Bengali-speaking East Pakistan fought for and achieved liberation in 1971. Coups and assassinations followed, and two decades later it completed its long, tumultuous transition to parliamentary government. Its history is complex and tragic—one of war, natural disaster, starvation, corruption, and political instability. First published in India by the Aleph Book Company, Salil Tripathi’s lyrical, beautifully wrought tale of the difficult birth and conflict-ridden politics of this haunted land has received international critical acclaim, and his reporting has been honored with a Mumbai Press Club Red Ink Award for Excellence in Journalism. The Colonel Who Would Not Repent is an insightful study of a nation struggling to survive and define itself.
Savaging the Civilized
Savaging the Civilized - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Savaging the Civilized write by Ramachandra Guha. This book was released on 1999-04. Savaging the Civilized available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Described by his contemporaries as a cross between Albert Schweitzer and Paul Gauguin, Elwin was a man of contradictions, at times taking on the role of evangelist, social worker, political activist, poet, government worker, and more. Intensely political, the Oxford-trained scholar tirelessly defended the rights of the indigenous and despite the deep religious influences of St.
Democrats and Dissenters
Democrats and Dissenters - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Democrats and Dissenters write by Ramachandra Guha. This book was released on 2017-10-18. Democrats and Dissenters available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A major new collection of essays by Ramachandra Guha, Democrats and Dissenters is a work of rigorous scholarship on topics of compelling contemporary interest, written with elegance and wit. The book covers a wide range of themes: from the varying national projects of India's neighbours to political debates within India itself, from the responsibilities of writers to the complex relationship between democracy and violence. It has essays critically assessing the work of Amartya Sen and Eric Hobsbawm, commentaries on the tragic predicament of tribals in India--who are, as Guha demonstrates, far worse off than Dalits or Muslims, yet get a fraction of the attention--and on the peculiar absence of a tradition of conservative intellectuals in India. Each essay takes up an important topic or an influential intellectual, as a window to explore major political and cultural debates in India and the world. Democrats and Dissenters is a book that is widely read, and even more widely discussed.
