Author: Madhu Limaye Publisher: ISBN: Category : India Languages : en Pages : 432
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Contribution of some of the significant socialist leaders on contemporary history of Indian freedom struggle and post 1947 socialist movement in India.
Author: William F. Kuracina Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1351679384 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 400
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The historical assessments of Left unity in 1930s India misrepresent activities designed to achieve unity. The common treatment of the relationship between Indian socialists and communists emphasizes disunity and the inability to find common ground. Scholarly discussions about unity in fact highlight its impracticality and the inevitability of its failure. This book proposes that during this moment, for socialists and communists, unity was not just an ideal, but was in fact considered to be a possible and very realizable goal. Rather than focusing exclusively on ideological fissures as the literature does, the book explores the possibilities for unity. The author investigates the United Front as a conceptual framework for collaboration, as a scheme for assessing the extent to which cooperation between socialists and communists was feasible and practicable during the mid-to-late-1930s in India. He employs the notion of United Front as an instrument for identifying and compensating for the prejudices which permeate sources about the cooperation between the Congress Socialist Party (CSP) and the Communist Party of India (CPI). The author challenges the historicism found in extant scholarly assessments of Left unity by illustrating the ways in which the partners engaged in united front activities and approached the common goal of Left unity despite their fragmented ideological perspectives. The book presents the United Front not as an unsuccessful phase of collaboration, but rather as a concerted attempt to achieve ideological convergence and Left homogeneity which ultimately failed to radicalize Indian nationalism because, in reality, conditions for Left unity did not exist. The book will be of interest to academics studying South Asian history and politics in particular, and socialism, communism, nationalism and imperialism more generally.
Author: Rahul Ramagundam Publisher: Penguin Random House India Private Limited ISBN: 9354925944 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 654
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The Militant Trade Union Leader. The Dauntless Political Rebel. The Passionate Socialist Dreamer. This is a biography of India's George Fernandes. George Fernandes (1930-2019)-a firebrand trade union leader, socialist politician and incredibly powerful orator-is popularly known for leading the All India Railwaymen's Federation (AIRF) in May 1974 and calling upon its approximately 1.7 million employees to strike, which brought India to a halt for twenty days. Often described as a rebel, he pursued every cause he took up with passionate devotion, heedless of the many ups and downs in his life. From the early years of fighting for the rights of dock and municipal workers of Bombay (now Mumbai) through the Emergency, which he resisted by going underground, to his last private decade as a bed-ridden Alzheimer's patient, his fights were always persistent and single-handed. George could call Bombay to be shut down and rose from its streets to become India's Defence Minister. The Life and Times of George Fernandes chronicles the story of George, who rose from the streets of Bombay to stride the corridors of power. In this extraordinary biography, Rahul Ramagundam opens a window to George's political evolution and traces the course of the Socialist Party in India from its inception in 1930s to its dissolution into the Janata Party in the late 1970s. In the process, this book explores the trail of India's opposition parties that worked to displace the long-ruling Congress Party from its preeminent position. Comprehensive, evocative and fascinating, this first definitive biography of George Fernandes is an unputdownable tour de force.
Author: Awadhesh C. Sinha Publisher: Taylor & Francis ISBN: 0429685688 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 236
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This book traces the beginnings of democracy in the three Himalayan kingdoms of Sikkim, Nepal and Bhutan. Charting the mobilisations and political experimentations that took place in the former buffer states under monarchies to establish democratic regimes, this book investigates their varying degrees of success, and offers a critical commentary on the consequent socio-political histories of this region. The volume sheds light on the nuances of their different geo-political contexts of the three Himalayan states, while tracing the social origins of the movements. It also undertakes a close analysis of the political participation and leadership involved to understand their achievements and limitations. A comprehensive analysis of a hitherto unexplored chapter in South Asian history, it will be of an immense interest to scholars and researchers of international relations, modern history, sociology and social anthropology, politics, South Asian studies, area studies, especially Nepal and Himalayan studies, as well as policy makers and government think tanks.
Author: PUBLICATIONS DIVISION Publisher: Publications Division Ministry of Information & Broadcasting ISBN: 8123024606 Category : Languages : en Pages : 490
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This is a report of the working group on software for Doordarshan appointed by the Government of India in 1982. This volume contains the observations of the working group on various issues pertaining to Doordarshan.
Author: All India Radio (AIR), New Delhi Publisher: All India Radio (AIR),New Delhi ISBN: Category : Antiques & Collectibles Languages : en Pages : 80
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"Akashvani" (English) is a programme journal of ALL INDIA RADIO, it was formerly known as The Indian Listener. It used to serve the listener as a bradshaw of broadcasting ,and give listener the useful information in an interesting manner about programmes, who writes them, take part in them and produce them along with photographs of performing artists. It also contains the information of major changes in the policy and service of the organisation. The Indian Listener (fortnightly programme journal of AIR in English) published by The Indian State Broadcasting Service, Bombay, started on 22 December, 1935 and was the successor to the Indian Radio Times in English, which was published beginning in July 16 of 1927. From 22 August ,1937 onwards, it used to published by All India Radio, New Delhi. From 1950,it was turned into a weekly journal. Later, The Indian listener became "Akashvani" (English ) w.e.f. January 5, 1958. It was made fortnightly journal again w.e.f July 1,1983. NAME OF THE JOURNAL: AKASHVANI LANGUAGE OF THE JOURNAL: English DATE, MONTH & YEAR OF PUBLICATION: 13 NOVEMBER, 1966 PERIODICITY OF THE JOURNAL: Weekly NUMBER OF PAGES: 80 VOLUME NUMBER: Vol. XXXI, No. 46 BROADCAST PROGRAMME SCHEDULE PUBLISHED (PAGE NOS): 12-79 ARTICLE: 1. The Debt We Owe to Nehru 2. Nehru and Secularism 3. Nehru and Socialistic Pattern 4. His Foreign Policy 5. The Moon and Beyond AUTHOR: 1. Shri. A.N. Jha 2. Shri. M.C. Chagla 3. Dr. V.K.R.V. Rao 4. K.P.S. Menon 5. Amalendu Das Gupta KEYWORDS : 1. His Titanic Task, Commonwealth's Debt. 2. Dignity of the Individual, True Sense of History. 3. Mahatma's Influence, His Socialism, Emphasis on Planning, No doctrinaire Socialist, Belief in Just Means, Beware of Sceptics. 4. Non-Alignment, Ultimate Objectives, Nehru the Democrat. 5. Two-Sage Journey, Nehru The Democrat, The Moon and Beyond, Is It. Prasar Bharati Archives has the copyright in all matters published in this “AKASHVANI” and other AIR journals. For reproduction previous permission is essential.
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