Author: S. Satyamurti
Publisher: Pearson Education India
ISBN: 9788131716847
Category : Nationalists
Languages : en
Pages : 404

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Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 930

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Author: Gopalkrishna Gandhi
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 8184757204
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 402

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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 The eighty odd largely unpublished letters from this contrarian statesman to his leader, Mahatma Gandhi, and those to his son-in-law Devadas Gandhi and to his grandson, that are presented here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.

Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 596

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Contains the 4th session of the 28th Parliament through the session of the Parliament.

Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 594

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Author: Rajmohan Gandhi
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 9385890336
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 530

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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.

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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 826

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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 784

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Author: Saroja Sundararajan
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Category : Politicians
Languages : en
Pages : 160

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Author: Ciṭṭi
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 220

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Political biography of S. Satyamurti, 1887-1943, Indian nationalist and parliamentarian.