Author: Shailja GoyalPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Biography of Satyapal, b. 1885, nationalist from Punjab; focus on his role in India's freedom movement in years 1919-1947.
Dr. Satyapal, the Hero of Freedom Movement in the Punjab
Author: Shailja GoyalPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Biography of Satyapal, b. 1885, nationalist from Punjab; focus on his role in India's freedom movement in years 1919-1947.
History of Freedom Movement in India & Punjab
Author: Balmukand ChaudhryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
Who's Who: Punjab Freedom Fighters
Author: Punjabi University. Department of Punjab Historical StudiesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Punjab
Languages : en
Pages : 968
Book Description
Indian National Bibliography
Author: B. S. KesavanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1276
Book Description
Book Review Index
Author: Eminent Freedom Fighters of Punjab
Author: Fauja SinghPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Punjab (India)
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Brief biographies of 92 eminent freedom fighters from Punjab, India.
Encyclopaedia of Punjab: Eminent Punjabis
Author: Shiri Ram BakshiPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Punjab (India)
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Guilty Men of India's Partition
Author: Rammanohar LohiaPublisher: Hyderabad : Rammanohar Lohia Samata Vidyalaya Nyas, Publication Department
ISBN:
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
Hundred Years of Freedom Struggle, 1847-1947
Author: The Patient Assassin
Author: Anita AnandPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1501195727
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
The “compelling [and] vivid” (The New York Times Book Review) true story of a man who claimed to be a survivor of a 1919 British massacre in India, his elaborate twenty-year plan for revenge, and the mix of truth and legend that made him a hero to hundreds of millions. When Sir Michael O’Dwyer, the Lieutenant Governor of Punjab, ordered Brigadier General Reginald Dyer to Amritsar, he wanted Dyer to bring the troublesome city to heel. Sir Michael had become increasingly alarmed at the effect Gandhi was having on his province, as well as recent demonstrations, strikes, and shows of Hindu-Muslim unity. All these things, to Sir Michael, were a precursor to a second Indian revolt. What happened next shocked the world. An unauthorized gathering in the Jallianwallah Bagh in Amritsar in April 1919 became the focal point for Sir Michael’s law enforcers. Dyer marched his soldiers into the walled public park, blocking the only exit. Then, without issuing any order to disperse, he instructed his men to open fire, turning their guns on the crowd, which numbered in the thousands and included women and children. The soldiers continued firing for ten minutes, stopping only when they ran out of ammunition. According to legend, nineteen-year-old Sikh orphan Udham Singh was injured in the attack, and remained surrounded by the dead and dying until he was able to move the next morning. Then, he supposedly picked up a handful of blood-soaked earth, smeared it across his forehead, and vowed to kill the men responsible. The truth, as the author has discovered, is more complex—but no less dramatic. Award-winning journalist Anita Anand traced Singh’s journey through Africa, the United States, and across Europe until, in March 1940, the young man finally arrived in front of O’Dwyer himself in a London hall ready to shoot him down. The Patient Assassin “mixes Tom Ripley’s con-man-for-all-seasons versatility with Edmond Dantès’s persistence” (The Wall Street Journal) and reveals the incredible but true story behind a legend that still endures today.