Download or read book Struggle for Independence C Rajagopalachari written by Shiri Ram Bakshi and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rajaji written by Rajmohan Gandhi and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2010-10-14 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive biography of free India's first Head of State Chakravarti Rajagopalachari (1878-1972), popularly called C.R. or Rajaji, is usually remembered as free India's Governor-General, or the first Indian Head of State. At one time considered Gandhi's heir, this brilliant lawyer from Salem was regarded in pre-independence years as one of the top five leaders of the Congress along with Nehru, Prasad, Patel and Azad. This biography written by Rajaji's grandson, the noted historian and biographer Rajmohan Gandhi, highlights Rajaji's role in the events preceding Partition. A statesman and conciliator of conflicts between stalwarts, he was perhaps the sole Congress leader in the forties to admit to the likelihood of Partition. He prophesied even then that Pakistan might break up in twenty-five years! Later, C.R. became a strident critic of Nehru and the Congress. As a founder of the Swatantra party in the fifties, he attacked the 'permit-license Raj' fearing its potential for corruption and stagnation, even while the tide was in favour of Nehru's socialistic pattern. Meticulously researched, using C.R.'s private papers, his contemporaries' archives, extensive interviews with eyewitnesses and contemporary accounts and newspapers, this intensely personal, yet objective account gives us an unparalleled portrait of one of the outstanding Indians of this century.
Download or read book Encyclopaedia Eminent Thinkers vol 15 The Political Thought Of C Rajagopalachari written by Ashu Pasricha and published by Concept Publishing Company. This book was released on 1998 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Indian context.
Download or read book WOF C Rajagopalachari written by Chakravarti Rajagopalachari and published by Penguin Books India. This book was released on 2010 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Speeches by prominent political figures of post-independent India on the political conditions of the times.
Download or read book Hungry Nation written by Benjamin Robert Siegel and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-04-26 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This ambitious and engaging new account of independent India's struggle to overcome famine and malnutrition in the twentieth century traces Indian nation-building through the voices of politicians, planners, and citizens. Siegel explains the historical origins of contemporary India's hunger and malnutrition epidemic, showing how food and sustenance moved to the center of nationalist thought in the final years of colonial rule. Independent India's politicians made promises of sustenance and then qualified them by asking citizens to share the burden of feeding a new and hungry state. Foregrounding debates over land, markets, and new technologies, Hungry Nation interrogates how citizens and politicians contested the meanings of nation-building and citizenship through food, and how these contestations receded in the wake of the Green Revolution. Drawing upon meticulous archival research, this is the story of how Indians challenged meanings of welfare and citizenship across class, caste, region, and gender in a new nation-state.
Download or read book A History of Alcohol and Drugs in Modern South Asia written by Harald Fischer-Tiné and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-01-03 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the beginning of the 21st century, alcoholism, transnational drug trafficking and drug addiction constitute major problems in various South Asian countries. The production, circulation and consumption of intoxicating substances created (and responded to) social upheavals in the region and had widespread economic, political and cultural repercussions on an international level. This book looks at the cultural, social, and economic history of intoxicants in South Asia, and analyses the role that alcohol and drugs have played in the region. The book explores the linkages between changing meanings of intoxicating substances, the making of and contestations over colonial and national regimes of regulation, economics, and practices and experiences of consumption. It shows the development of current meanings of intoxicants in South Asia – in terms of politics, cultural norms and identity formation – and the way in which the history of drugs and alcohol is enmeshed in the history of modern empires and nation states — even in a country in which a staunch teetotaller and active anti-drug crusader like Mohandas Gandhi is presented as the ‘father of the nation’. Primarily a historical analysis, the book also includes perspectives from Modern Indology and Cultural Anthropology and situates developments in South Asia in wider imperial and global contexts. It is of interest to scholars working on the social and cultural history of alcohol and drugs, South Asian Studies and Global History.
Download or read book Freedom Struggle Of India Quiz Book written by A. Goswami and published by Diamond Pocket Books (P) Ltd.. This book was released on with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Guide to RRB NTPC Non Technical Recruitment Exam 2nd Edition written by Disha Experts and published by Disha Publications. This book was released on 2018-11-19 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: • The 2nd edition of the Guide to RRB Non Technical Recruitment Exam provides the 2017 Solved Papers of Stage I & II. • The book has 4 sections: General Intelligence & Reasoning, General Awareness, General Science and Arithmetic. • Each section is further divided into chapters which contains theory explaining the concepts involved followed by MCQ exercises. • The detailed solutions to all the questions are provided at the end of each chapter. • The General Science section provides material for Physics, Chemistry and Biology till class 10. • There is a special chapter created on Railways in the general awareness section. • The book covers 100% syllabus as prescribed in the notification of the RRB exam.
Download or read book Modern History Short Notes Revision Notes For IAS PCS CTET Police CDS EPFO NDA NET JRF Railway SSC CGL Exam written by Team Arora IAS and published by Arora IAS . This book was released on with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Index Chapter-1 : Sources for Studying Modern Indian History Chapter-2 : Different Perspectives on Modern Indian History Chapter-3 : Europeans Arrive in India (15th Century) Chapter-4 : India on the Brink of Colonial Rule Chapter-5 : Expansion and Consolidation of British Rule in India Chapter-6 : People's Resistance Against British Rule Before 1857 Chapter-7 : The Revolt of 1857 Chapter-8 : Characteristics of Socio-Religious Reform Movements in 19th Century India Chapter-9 : Socio-Cultural Reform Movements in India Chapter-10 : Emergence of Modern Nationalism in India Chapter-11 : Origins of the Indian National Congress Chapter-12 : Rise of Militant Nationalism (1905–1909) Chapter-13 : Initial Phase of Revolutionary Action Chapter-14 : Nationalist Reaction to the First World War Chapter-15 : Gandhi's Ascendancy and the Revival of Nationalism Chatper-16 : Emergence of Non-Cooperation and Khilafat Agitation Chatper-17 : The Rise of New Actors in the Indian Struggle for Independence Chapter-18 : The Simon Commission (1927) Chapter-19 : Intersection of Civil Disobedience and Round Table Talks Chapter-20 : Deliberations on Post-Civil Disobedience Strategy Chapter-21 : Congress Rule in Provincial Governments: 1937-1939 Chapter-22 : Indian Nationalist Response to World War II Chapter-23 : Quit India Movement Chapter 24 : National Landscape After World War II Chapter-25 : Freedom with Division Chapter-26 : Progression of Constitutional Structure Chapter 27 : Analysis of Colonial Policies in the Indian Context Chapter-28 : Economic Consequences of British Colonialism in India Chapter-29 : Growth and Transformation of the Press in India Chapter-30 : Development of Education under East India Company Rule Chapter-31 : Economic Challenges Encountered by Indian Rural Population under Colonial Rule (1857-1947) Chapter-32 : Formation of the Working Class During British Rule in India Chapter-33 : Women Freedom Fighters of India Chapter-34 : Governors-General / Viceroy of India
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Download or read book My Dear Bapu written by Gopalkrishna Gandhi and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2012-10-05 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nine years younger than Gandhi, Chakravarti Rajagopalachari or Rajaji was described by him as his "conscience keeper" and, at one time, as his "only possible successor". As his southern general, Rajaji campaigned for freedom, promoting khadi and prohibition. Though they shared nearly thirty years of colleagueship, hardship, friendship—and kinship, when daughter Lakshmi married Devadas Gandhi, Rajaji remained throughout a man of his own mind. The eighty odd largely unpublished letters from this contrarian statesman to his leader, Mahatma Gandhi, and those to his son-in-law Devadas Gandhi and to his grandson, that are presented here come from family archives and public repositories and cover the years from 1920 to 1955, in the run-up to Independence and its early years. Described are the struggles and endeavours, large and small, made in the public arena, besides the inner world of friends, of home and hearth, with both spheres coalescing seamlessly. Frank, brave—at times, bitter, the letters are remarkably free of recrimination or anything that would diminish the dialogue. Observed always is the healthy respect of the freedom to differ, to persuade, to agree to disagree, but never to let down or part. Complied, edited and annotated by Gopalkrishna Gandhi, in a manner he believes his father, Devadas, would have approved, these letters are accompanied by a deeply felt and illuminating introduction. They offer us a rare glimpse into the lives of two of the tallest Indians of our age, when idealism rode strong but was also challenged.
Download or read book VP Menon written by Narayani Basu and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2020-02-04 with total page 675 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With his initial plans for an independent India in tatters, the desperate viceroy, Lord Mountbatten, turned to his seniormost Indian civil servant, Vappala Pangunni Menon—or VP—giving him a single night to devise an alternative, coherent and workable plan for independence. Menon met his stringent deadline, presenting the Menon Plan, which would change the map of the world forever. Menon was unarguably the architect of the modern Indian state. Yet startlingly little is known about this bureaucrat, patriot and visionary. In this definitive biography, Menon’s great-granddaughter, Narayani Basu, rectifies this travesty. She takes us through the highs and lows of his career, from his determination to give women the right to vote; to his strategy, at once ruthless and subtle, to get the princely states to accede to India; to his decision to join forces with the Swatantra Party; to his final relegation to relative obscurity. Equally, the book candidly explores the man behind the public figure— his unconventional personal life and his private conflicts, which made him channel his energy into public service. Drawing from documents—scattered, unread and unresearched until now—and with unprecedented access to Menon’s papers and his taped off-the-record and explosively frank interviews—this remarkable biography of VP Menon not only covers the life and times of a man unjustly consigned to the footnotes of history but also changes our perception of how India, as we know it, came into being.
Download or read book A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE SIKHS MULTIDIMENSIONAL SIKH STRUGGLES written by Devinder Singh Mangat and published by SLM PUBLISHERS. This book was released on 2023-02-11 with total page 587 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Brief History of the Sikhs attempts to highlight that the inhabitants of Punjab have been free spirited, accommodating and companionate towards the peaceful settlers. But they were not accommodating towards the invaders from the north west. They accepted the new ideas like Sufism and the Bhakti movements with open arms. Out of the synthesis of the two, Sikhism was born. The Sikhs carried on their free spirited approach towards the Punjabi nationalism and onwards to uncompromising nationalist approach for the independence of India from the British slavery in 1947. Unlike other communities, the Punjabis fought against a common enemy not among themselves. The Punjabis have been hard working, honest, peace loving and pushing, irrespective of their ethnicity. The Muslims, Hindus and the Sikhs stood for the Punjabiat. That is what the, A Brief History of the Sikhs stands for.
Download or read book Gandhi s Hinduism the Struggle against Jinnah s Islam written by M. J. Akbar and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-03-05 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gandhi, a devout Hindu, believed faith could nurture the civilizational harmony of India, a land where every religion had flourished. Jinnah, a political Muslim rather than a practicing believer, was determined to carve up a syncretic subcontinent in the name of Islam. His confidence came from a wartime deal with Britain, embodied in the 'August Offer' of 1940. Gandhi's strength lay in ideological commitment which was, in the end, ravaged by the communal violence that engineered partition. The price of this epic confrontation, paid by the people, has stretched into generations. M.J. Akbar's book, meticulously researched from original sources, reveals the astonishing blunders, lapses and conscious chicanery that permeated the politics of seven explosive years between 1940 and 1947. Facts from the archives challenge the conventional narrative, and disturb the conspiratorial silence used to protect the image of famous icons. Gandhi's Hinduism: The Struggle Against Jinnah's Islam delves into both the ideology and the personality of those who shaped the fate of a region between Iran and Burma. It is essential reading for anyone interested in modern Indian history, and the past as a prelude to the future.
