India's Struggle For Independence
(Bipan Chandra)
India?s Struggle for Independence (1857 ? 1947)By Bipan Chandra,(Mridula Mukherji,Aditya Mukherji,K.N. Pannikar,Sucheta Mahajan)Penguin BooksIndia?s Struggle for Independence is a magnum opus as far as the historic mention of Indian Freedom struggle is concerned. This Book contains a complete and sumptuous description of the entire freedom struggle, i.e., starting from the revolt of 1857 till the Indian National Movement and finally the freedom and the Partition. There is a detailed mention of the revolt of 1857, the reasons for its uprising, its causes, reasons of failure and effects. There is also a detailed mention of the historic valuation of the revolt of 1857.The book tactfully and truthfully portrays the importance of unity and strategy in gaining the final victory. The author of this book is a well known historian , born and brought up in Kangra Himachal Pradesh.He got educated at the Forman Christian College ,Lahore and at Stanford University California.He has been the Professor of History at Jawaharlal Lal Nehru University since 1971.This book proudly flaunts the excellent research work the authors have done as far as the formation of Indian National Congress is concerned apart from the extensive and thorough field work done by the authors about the Freedom Struggle. The chapter on the role of the Mahatmas and Gurus of Tibet in the formation of Indian National Congress is very absorbing and penetrating.The book offers extreme importance not only to all the history students but for all those who desire to gain an elaborate idea about the Indian Freedom Struggle, all in a nutshell. The struggle ideas are comprehensive lucid and fertile, often lead to cultivation of beautiful thoughts and sow seeds of wonderful ideas in the subconscious minds of the readers.The book describes struggle in 39 long and interesting Chapters accompanied by useful, descriptions and notes. Lack of Pictures is the only thing the book lacks; otherwise the book covers every penny it has charged. The author has overall succeeded in presenting the masterpiece to the mankind.There is remarkable coverage of unheard national heroes other than Bal Lal Pal and Karamchand Gandhi.Happy Reading !!
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