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Robin Hood of Kathiawar and Other Extraordinary Stories from India's Freedom Movement

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What links Vivekananda & Lenin?What connects a Mexican nightclub and a Bengali rebel?How did football and Chicago Radio fuel India's freedom movement?Why did Gadhar meetings take place in a tiny restaurant near Times Square?And who was Kathiawar's Robin Hood who defied the British?Our fight for independence didn't just create a nation; it created a million strange, moving and brilliant stories. ... Read more

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What links Vivekananda & Lenin?What connects a Mexican nightclub and a Bengali rebel?How did football and Chicago Radio fuel India's freedom movement?Why did Gadhar meetings take place in a tiny restaurant near Times Square?And who was Kathiawar's Robin Hood who defied the British?Our fight for independence didn't just create a nation; it created a million strange, moving and brilliant stories.
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Robin Hood of Kathiawar and Other Extraordinary Stories from India's Freedom Movement

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'Makes the freedom movement relevant to newer generations through excellently researched stories of popular culture, sports and the extraordinary deeds of ordinary people.'- Swapna Liddle'Fifty unforgettable tales where revolution meets serendipity - ordinary people doing the most extraordinary things.'- Rana Safvi'Part detective story, part historical tapestry - a surprising and exciting insight ... Read more

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'Makes the freedom movement relevant to newer generations through excellently researched stories of popular culture, sports and the extraordinary deeds of ordinary people.'- Swapna Liddle'Fifty unforgettable tales where revolution meets serendipity - ordinary people doing the most extraordinary things.'- Rana Safvi'Part detective story, part historical tapestry - a surprising and exciting insight
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India After Gandhi

The History of the World's Largest Democracy

by Ramachandra Guha ...

A definitive history of post-Partition India, now revised and updated with extensive new material."Guha has given India the rich, well-paced history it deserves." — Washington Post Book WorldTold in lucid and beautiful prose, the story of India's wild ride toward and since Independence is a riveting one. Taking full advantage of the dramatic details of the protests and conflicts that helped shape ... Read more

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A definitive history of post-Partition India, now revised and updated with extensive new material."Guha has given India the rich, well-paced history it deserves." — Washington Post Book WorldTold in lucid and beautiful prose, the story of India's wild ride toward and since Independence is a riveting one. Taking full advantage of the dramatic details of the protests and conflicts that helped shape
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Indira

The Life of Indira Nehru Gandhi

by Katherine Frank ...

The definitive and first non-partisan biography of one of the most formidable political figures of the twentieth century (voted Woman of the Millennium in a BBC poll, 2000)Indira Gandhi’s life, from her birth in 1917, through partition and up to her assassination in 1984, was dominated by the politics of her country. Always directly involved in India’s turbulent twentieth-century history, once she ... Read more

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The definitive and first non-partisan biography of one of the most formidable political figures of the twentieth century (voted Woman of the Millennium in a BBC poll, 2000)Indira Gandhi’s life, from her birth in 1917, through partition and up to her assassination in 1984, was dominated by the politics of her country. Always directly involved in India’s turbulent twentieth-century history, once she
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Kathmandu

by Thomas Bell ...

One of the greatest cities of the Himalaya, Kathmandu, Nepal, is a unique blend of thousand-year-old cultural practices and accelerated urban development. In this book, Thomas Bell recounts his experiences from his many years in the city—exploring in the process the rich history of Kathmandu and its many instances of self-reinvention.Closed to the outside world until 1951 and trapped in a medieval ... Read more

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One of the greatest cities of the Himalaya, Kathmandu, Nepal, is a unique blend of thousand-year-old cultural practices and accelerated urban development. In this book, Thomas Bell recounts his experiences from his many years in the city—exploring in the process the rich history of Kathmandu and its many instances of self-reinvention.Closed to the outside world until 1951 and trapped in a medieval
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The Passenger: India

by The Passenger, Arundhati Roy, Prem Shankar Jha, Tishani Doshi ...

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A journey into today's India through essays, photography, and more, shortlisted for a 2022 Edward Stanford Travel Writing Award.Since its earliest interactions with the West, India has been the object of a gross misinterpretation, a vague association with ideas of peace, spiritualism, the magic of the fakirs. Constantly reframed and mythologized by Westerners fleeing their supposedly rationalist ... Read more

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A journey into today's India through essays, photography, and more, shortlisted for a 2022 Edward Stanford Travel Writing Award.Since its earliest interactions with the West, India has been the object of a gross misinterpretation, a vague association with ideas of peace, spiritualism, the magic of the fakirs. Constantly reframed and mythologized by Westerners fleeing their supposedly rationalist
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Savarkar (Part 2)

A Contested Legacy, 1924-1966

by Vikram Sampath ...

Was Savarkar really a co-conspirator in the Gandhi murder? Was there a pogrom against a particular community after Gandhi's assassination? Decades after his death, Vinayak Damodar Savarkar continues to uniquely influence India's political scenario. An optimistic advocate of Hindu-Muslim unity in his treatise on the 1857 War of Independence, what was it that transformed him into a proponent of ... Read more

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Was Savarkar really a co-conspirator in the Gandhi murder? Was there a pogrom against a particular community after Gandhi's assassination? Decades after his death, Vinayak Damodar Savarkar continues to uniquely influence India's political scenario. An optimistic advocate of Hindu-Muslim unity in his treatise on the 1857 War of Independence, what was it that transformed him into a proponent of
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Incarnations

India in 50 Lives

by Sunil Khilnani ...

One of the world's most ancient cultures, India can be understood and explained in as many ways as humans can possibly devise. To make sense of this astonishing turmoil of ideas, Sunil Khilnani has created a remarkably simple and attractive solution. In this book (which accompanies a major Radio 4 series which he is narrating) he takes the lives of 50 Indians, starting with the Buddha, some very ... Read more

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One of the world's most ancient cultures, India can be understood and explained in as many ways as humans can possibly devise. To make sense of this astonishing turmoil of ideas, Sunil Khilnani has created a remarkably simple and attractive solution. In this book (which accompanies a major Radio 4 series which he is narrating) he takes the lives of 50 Indians, starting with the Buddha, some very
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Revolutionaries

The Other Story of How India Won Its Freedom

by Sanjeev Sanyal ...

The history of India's struggle for freedom is usually told from the perspective of the non-violent movement. Yet, the story of armed resistance to colonial occupation is just as important. Names such as Vinayak Savarkar, Aurobindo Ghosh, Rashbehari Bose, Bagha Jatin, Sachindra Nath Sanyal, Bhagat Singh, Chandrashekhar Azad and Subhas Chandra Bose are still widely remembered. Their story is almost ... Read more

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The history of India's struggle for freedom is usually told from the perspective of the non-violent movement. Yet, the story of armed resistance to colonial occupation is just as important. Names such as Vinayak Savarkar, Aurobindo Ghosh, Rashbehari Bose, Bagha Jatin, Sachindra Nath Sanyal, Bhagat Singh, Chandrashekhar Azad and Subhas Chandra Bose are still widely remembered. Their story is almost
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The Last Liberal and Other Essays

by Ramachandra Guha ...

I call myself a Nehruvian Indian [and] I like to think that the term "Nehruvian Indian" captures more than my own c.v.', says Ramachandra Guha in his Introduction to this sparkling collection of essays. His book is a meditation on how a large area of contemporary India's cultural and intellectual life has in fact been fashioned by exceptional individuals who have, in diverse ways, imbibed the ... Read more

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I call myself a Nehruvian Indian [and] I like to think that the term "Nehruvian Indian" captures more than my own c.v.', says Ramachandra Guha in his Introduction to this sparkling collection of essays. His book is a meditation on how a large area of contemporary India's cultural and intellectual life has in fact been fashioned by exceptional individuals who have, in diverse ways, imbibed the
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Mahatma Among the Revolutionaries

Disturbed India of the 1920s

by Vivek Verma ...

"2,000 INDIANS SHOT DOWN" — Daily Express, December 13, 1919.What happened next is the story you were never fully told.In the turbulent decade that followed the Jallianwala Bagh massacre, India did not have one freedom movement. It had two — and they were in fierce competition with each other.While Gandhi mobilised millions through nonviolence, ahimsa, and the Salt March, a parallel army of armed ... Read more

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"2,000 INDIANS SHOT DOWN" — Daily Express, December 13, 1919.What happened next is the story you were never fully told.In the turbulent decade that followed the Jallianwala Bagh massacre, India did not have one freedom movement. It had two — and they were in fierce competition with each other.While Gandhi mobilised millions through nonviolence, ahimsa, and the Salt March, a parallel army of armed
... Read more
Shadows at Noon

The South Asian Twentieth Century

by Joya Chatterji ...

A groundbreaking view of South Asian history in the twentieth century that underlines the similarities and intertwined cultures of India and Pakistan“[A] definitive new 20th-century thematic history of the Indian subcontinent that rejects hegemonic conceptions of national ‘difference.’”—Financial TimesThis radically original and ambitious history of the Indian subcontinent explores the region’s ... Read more

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A groundbreaking view of South Asian history in the twentieth century that underlines the similarities and intertwined cultures of India and Pakistan“[A] definitive new 20th-century thematic history of the Indian subcontinent that rejects hegemonic conceptions of national ‘difference.’”—Financial TimesThis radically original and ambitious history of the Indian subcontinent explores the region’s
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