Author: Shiri Ram BakshiPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Struggle for Independence: Annie Besant
Author: Shiri Ram BakshiPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Rebels Against the Raj
Author: Ramachandra GuhaPublisher: Knopf
ISBN: 1101874848
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
An extraordinary history of resistance and the fight for Indian independence—the little-known story of seven foreigners to India who joined the movement fighting for freedom from British colonial rule. Rebels Against the Raj tells the story of seven people who chose to struggle for a country other than their own: foreigners to India who across the late 19th to late 20th century arrived to join the freedom movement fighting for independence from British colonial rule. Of the seven, four were British, two American, and one Irish. Four men, three women. Before and after being jailed or deported they did remarkable and pioneering work in a variety of fields: journalism, social reform, education, the emancipation of women, environmentalism. This book tells their stories, each renegade motivated by idealism and genuine sacrifice; each connected to Gandhi, though some as acolytes where others found endless infuriation in his views; each understanding they would likely face prison sentences for their resistance, and likely live and die in India; each one leaving a profound impact on the region in which they worked, their legacies continuing through the institutions they founded and the generations and individuals they inspired. Through these entwined lives, wonderfully told by one of the world’s finest historians, we reach deep insights into relations between India and the West, and India’s story as a country searching for its identity and liberty beyond British colonial rule.
The Ancient Wisdom
Author: Annie BesantPublisher: Elibron.com
ISBN: 9780543938800
Category : Theosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 508
Book Description
This Elibron Classics title is a reprint of the original edition published by the Theosophical Publishing Society in London, 1899.
How India Wrought for Freedom
Author: Annie BesantIndian Critiques of Gandhi
Author: Harold CowardPublisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 0791485889
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Although Gandhi has been the subject of hundreds of books and an Oscar-winning film, there has been no sustained study of his engagement with major figures in the Indian Independence Movement who were often his critics from 1920–1948. This book fills that gap by examining the strengths and weaknesses of Gandhi's contribution to India as evidenced in the letters, speeches, and newspaper articles focused on the dialogue/debate between Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru, Rabindranath Tagore, Sri Aurobindo, Bhim Rao Ambedkar, Annie Besant, and C. F. Andrews. The book also covers key groups within India that Gandhi sought to incorporate into his Independence Movement—the Hindu Right, Muslims, Christians, and Sikhs—and analyzes Gandhi's ambiguous stance regarding the Hindi-Urdu question and its impact on the Independence struggle.
Wake Up, India
Author: Annie BesantFruits of Philosophy
Author: Charles KnowltonThe First Five Lives of Annie Besant
Author: Arthur Hobart NethercotPublisher: London : R. Hart-Davis, 1961 [c1960]
ISBN:
Category : Theosophists
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
Annie Besant
Author: Annie BesantPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Theosophists
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
Against White Feminism: Notes on Disruption
Author: Rafia ZakariaPublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 1324006625
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
A radically inclusive, intersectional, and transnational approach to the fight for women’s rights. Upper-middle-class white women have long been heralded as “experts” on feminism. They have presided over multinational feminist organizations and written much of what we consider the feminist canon, espousing sexual liberation and satisfaction, LGBTQ inclusion, and racial solidarity, all while branding the language of the movement itself in whiteness and speaking over Black and Brown women in an effort to uphold privilege and perceived cultural superiority. An American Muslim woman, attorney, and political philosopher, Rafia Zakaria champions a reconstruction of feminism in Against White Feminism, centering women of color in this transformative overview and counter-manifesto to white feminism’s global, long-standing affinity with colonial, patriarchal, and white supremacist ideals. Covering such ground as the legacy of the British feminist imperialist savior complex and “the colonial thesis that all reform comes from the West” to the condescension of the white feminist–led “aid industrial complex” and the conflation of sexual liberation as the “sum total of empowerment,” Zakaria follows in the tradition of intersectional feminist forebears Kimberlé Crenshaw, Adrienne Rich, and Audre Lorde. Zakaria ultimately refutes and reimagines the apolitical aspirations of white feminist empowerment in this staggering, radical critique, with Black and Brown feminist thought at the forefront.