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954.035092 PAR Gandhi : a very short introduction | 954.035092 PAR Colonialism, Tradition and Reform | 954.035092 PRA Mind of Mahatma Gandhi | 954.035092 PRA Dream of revolution : a biography of Jayaprakash Narayan | 954.035092 PUR Mahatma Gandhi and his contemporaries | 954.035092 PYA Mahatma Gandhi. Volume I, the early phase | 954.035092 PYA Mahatma Gandhi. Volume III, the birth of satyagraha-- From petitioning to passive resistance |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Few figures in modern India have enjoyed such acclaim and adoration as Jayaprakash Narayan. And yet, he has been equally vilified for all that went wrong in the unfinished post-colonial movement for freedom and democracy. Jayaprakash Narayan, or JP as he was universally known, epitomized the Marxian and Gandhian styles of political engagement, and famously brought a powerful government to its knees. Throughout his life, he channelled an emotional hunger for transformative politics, jettisoned easy options, shunned power and incubated revolutionary ideas. A comprehensive study of JP's life and ideas-from the radicalism of his thought process at American university campuses in the 1920s to his political coming of age in the 1930s and subsequent disenchantment with Gandhi's leadership; from his infectious confidence about the future of socialism to his seemingly naive plans to outmanoeuvre powerful forces within the Congress; from his fractious friendship with Jawaharlal Nehru to his relentless crusade against the stifling of dissent-The Dream of Revolution, Bimal and Sujata Prasad's rigorously researched biography of JP, dispenses with clichés, questions commonly held perceptions and pushes the limits of what a biographical portrait is capable of Rich in anecdotes and never-before-told stories, this book explores the ambiguities and ironies of a life lived at the barricades, and one man's unremitting quest to usher in a society based on equality and freedom.
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