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Foiled
The next morning Rajesh and Laila walked out of the hotel. They planned to hire a vehicle from the outside. They could hardly walk off a hundred yards when they heard a big explosion behind them. They looked back and saw the Plaza Hotel engulfed in flames. People were running in chaos. They also ran away from that place. After achieving an apparently safe distance, they stopped to catch their breath. Police, military, and fire brigade vehicles were rushing to the spot of the blast.
The Revolt of 1857
The present book is the outcome of the completion of 150 years of the occurrence of the Revolt of 1857 which had given a big jolt to the British foundation. British had exploited India and Indians at its maximum in a varied way which had sour the seed of intense discontent among the people of India and soldiers which proved great fatal for the British. The revolt at Meerut took place on May 10, 1857. Though at Lucknow the Revolt commenced in May 1857, still there was discontentment among the Indian troops stationed there which was explicit from some of the sporadic incidents which took place earlier. In April, there was trouble between the Indian soldiers of the 48th Native Infantry Regiment...
Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru
Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru was a major political leader of the Congress Party, a pivotal figure in the Indian independence movement and the first Prime Minister of independent India. He was also a key figure in international politics in the post-war period (in which he was considered the leader of third world interests) and the patriarch of the Nehru-Gandhi family, one of the most influential forces in Indian politics. In the 1920s, Nehru was elected president of the All India Trade Unions Congress. He and Subhash Chandra Bose had become the most prominent youth leaders, and both demanded outright political independence of India. He would take office as the Prime Minister of India on August 15, and delivered his inaugural address titled “A Tryst With Destiny:” The book will prove an informative and most useful asset for students, scholars and teachers in this field. CONTENTS • Introduction • Nehru : The Maker of Independence India • Economic Policy of Congress • Foreign Policy of Nehru • Nehru, Jinnah and Patel • Nehru's Views on the Pursuit and peace • Nehru Writing on Indian State • Nehru and National Planning Committee
Bal Gangadhar Tilak
About the book Bal Gangadhar Tilak Bal Gangadhar Tilak was an Indian nationalist, social reformer and freedom fighter who was the first popular leader of the Indian Independence Movement and is known as “Father of the Indian unrest.” Tilak was one of the first and strongest proponents for Swaraj (complete independence) in Indian consciousness, and is considered the father of Hindu nationalism as well. His famous quote, “Swaraj is my birthright, and I shall have it!” is well-remembered in India even today. Reverently addressed as Lokmanya (meaning “Beloved of the people” or “Revered by the world”), Tilak was a scholar of Indian history, Sanskrit, Hinduism, mathematics, law and...
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel This biography of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel is a comprehensive and vivid narration of his unique contribution to Mahatma Gandhi's struggle for India's freedom (1920-47). Without his support, Mahatma Gandhi admitted, his satyagrahas wouldn't have had the same success. It was he who built the party machine through the imposition of strict discipline and by giving it a mass base, and as party boss supervised and directed the functioning of the Congress ministries post-1937 provincial elections. Patel's post-1945 role concerned India's freedom, and also marked the end of his being Gandhi's blind follower. Disillusioned with his own party in the failure of the Cabinet miss...
Jayaprakash Narayan
This biography of a great person is an adventurous academic venture. The present book is devoted to the great personality of Loknayak Jayaprakash Narayan, who was a great socialist, great freedom fighter and a crusader against corruption and political oppression. He overthrew the emergency regime in 1977, which was his greatest achievement. This comprehensive Biography, in an interesting manner, has culminated into an, exhaustive work on the subject. Beyond normal parameters, it is bound to serve all its users. This book is destined to be acknowledged by all academic circles. Enlightening comments and suggestive remarks are solicited very cordially. This book is an exclusive, compact and comprehensive account of the above-mentioned great life, which is bound to attract the attention of scholars, researchers, students and of course, the general readers. Contents • The Profile • A Great Life • Ideology and Philosophy • Political Life • Great Crusade • Historic Speeches • Select Writings
Indira Gandhi
This biography of a great person is an adventurous academic venture. The present book is devoted to the great personality of Indira Gandhi, who was the Prime Minister of India for several consecutive terms and for the last term until her assassination — a total of fifteen years. She was India's first and to date the only, female prime minister. Her greatest achievement was that she led the nation to the decisive victory in the 1971 Indo-Pak war. This comprehensive Biography, in an interesting manner, has culminated into an exhaustive work on the subject. Beyond normal parameters, it is bound to serve all its users. I am indebted to all scholars, authors and compilers, whose valuable contri...
The Robber' Hill, Chambal And The Fugitive
This is a combo of two books telling the stories from the dreaded terrain of the Chambal of India. These Robbers stories are fictional but close to reality.
Swami Vivekananda
Swami Vivekananda Swami Vivekananda was born in Shimla Pally, Calcutta on 12 January 1863, during the Makara Sankranti festival in a traditional Kayastha family, and was given the name Narendranath Dutta. His father Vishwanath Dutta was an attorney of Calcutta High Court. He was considered generous and had a liberal and progressive outlook on social and religious matters. His mother Bhuvaneshwari Devi was pious and had practiced austerities and prayed to Vireshwar Shiva of Varanasi to give her a son. According to Vivekananda, the important teaching he received from Ramakrishna was that “Jiva is Shiva” (each individual is divinity itself). This became his Mantra, and he coined the concept...
Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar
About the book Bhimrao Rao Ambedkar Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar, also known as Babasaheb, was an Indian nationalist, jurist, Dalit, political leader, activist, philosopher, thinker, anthropologist, historian, orator, prolific writer, economist, scholar, editor, revolutionary and the revivalist of Buddhism in India. He was also the chief architect of the Indian Constitution. Born into a poor Untouchable family, Ambedkar spent his whole life fighting against social discrimination, the system of Chaturvarna—the Hindu categorization of human society into four varnas—and the Indian caste system. Dr. Ambedkar's understanding, the prime factor responsible for the evolution of the system of untouch...
