Passage Through A Turbulent Era

Author : Mukund R. Vyas
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 606 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Passage Through a Turbulent Era written by Mukund R. Vyas and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Narrative about the world politics, chiefly in the context of the Indian freedom struggle and role of Subhas Chandra Bose, 1897-1945.

Author : Isabel Huacuja Alonso
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 023155656X
Total Pages : 497 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Radio for the Millions written by Isabel Huacuja Alonso and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2023-01-03 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Co-winner, 2023 AIPS Book Prize, American Institute of Pakistan Studies From news about World War II to the broadcasting of music from popular movies, radio played a crucial role in an increasingly divided South Asia for more than half a century. Radio for the Millions examines the history of Hindi-Urdu radio during the height of its popularity from the 1930s to the 1980s, showing how it created transnational communities of listeners. Isabel Huacuja Alonso argues that despite British, Indian, and Pakistani politicians’ efforts to usurp the medium for state purposes, radio largely escaped their grasp. She demonstrates that the medium enabled listeners and broadcasters to resist the cultural, linguistic, and political agendas of the British colonial administration and the subsequent independent Indian and Pakistani governments. Rather than being merely a tool of nation building in South Asia, radio created affective links that defied state agendas, policies, and borders. It forged an enduring transnational soundscape, even after the 1947 Partition had made a united India a political impossibility. Huacuja Alonso traces how people engaged with radio across news, music, and drama broadcasts, arguing for a more expansive definition of what it means to listen. She develops the concept of “radio resonance” to understand how radio relied on circuits of oral communication such as rumor and gossip and to account for the affective bonds this “talk” created. By analyzing Hindi film-song radio programs, she demonstrates how radio spurred new ways of listening to cinema. Drawing on a rich collection of sources, including newly recovered recordings, listeners’ letters to radio stations, original interviews with broadcasters, and archival documents from across three continents, Radio for the Millions rethinks assumptions about how the medium connects with audiences.

Author : Sugata Bose
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674060830
Total Pages : 441 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book His Majesty’s Opponent written by Sugata Bose and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2011-09-01 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The man whom Indian nationalists perceived as the “George Washington of India” and who was President of the Indian National Congress in 1938–1939 is a legendary figure. Called Netaji (“leader”) by his countrymen, Subhas Chandra Bose struggled all his life to liberate his people from British rule and, in pursuit of that goal, raised and led the Indian National Army against Allied Forces during World War II. His patriotism, as Gandhi asserted, was second to none, but his actions aroused controversy in India and condemnation in the West. Now, in a definitive biography of the revered Indian nationalist, Sugata Bose deftly explores a charismatic personality whose public and private life encapsulated the contradictions of world history in the first half of the twentieth century. He brilliantly evokes Netaji’s formation in the intellectual milieu of Calcutta and Cambridge, probes his thoughts and relations during years of exile, and analyzes his ascent to the peak of nationalist politics. Amidst riveting accounts of imprisonment and travels, we glimpse the profundity of his struggle: to unite Hindu and Muslim, men and women, and diverse linguistic groups within a single independent Indian nation. Finally, an authoritative account of his untimely death in a plane crash will put to rest rumors about the fate of this “deathless hero.” This epic of a life larger than its legend is both intimate, based on family archives, and global in significance. His Majesty’s Opponent establishes Bose among the giants of Indian and world history.

Author : Swami Chaitanyananda / स्वामी चैतन्यानन्द
Publisher : Ramakrishna Math, Nagpur
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 441 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Vivekananda Ki Prabha Se Udbhasit Subhashachandra Part 2 / विवेकानन्द की प्रभा से उद्भासित सुभाषचन्द्र भाग - २ written by Swami Chaitanyananda / स्वामी चैतन्यानन्द and published by Ramakrishna Math, Nagpur. This book was released on 2024-03-14 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “समकालीन भारत की दुर्दशा को देखकर चिन्तित होते हुए भी सुभाषचन्द्र भारत के पुनरुत्थान के सम्बन्ध में निश्चिन्त भाव से आशावादी थे। सुभाषचन्द्र बसु लिखते हैं : भारत यद्यपि अपना सब कुछ खो बैठा है, भारतवासी प्राय: सारविहीन हो गये हैं, परन्तु इस प्रकार सोचने से काम नहीं चलेगा – हताश होने से काम नहीं चलेगा और जैसा कि कवि ने कहा है – ‘फिर से तुम मनुष्य हो जाओ, फिर से मनुष्य बनना होगा ... यही नैराश्य-निस्तब्धता – इसी दु:ख-दारिद्र्य, अनशन, सर्वत्र हाहाकार और इसी विलास-विभव-असफलता के रव को भेद कर फिर से भारत का वही राष्ट्रीय गीत गाना होगा। वह क्या है – उतिष्ठत, जाग्रत। भारत की मुक्ति और पुनरुज्जीवन के तात्पर्य के सम्बन्ध में नेताजी सुभाषचन्द्र स्वामी विवेकानन्द की तरह ही सजग और सचेतन थे। वे सोचते थे – विश्व की संस्कृति और सभ्यता में भारत का योगदान न रहने से विश्व और भी अधिक दरिद्र हो जाएगा। भविष्य के भारत के गठन के लिए भी सुभाषचन्द्र की विस्तृत कल्पना और चिन्तन में विवेकानन्द का प्रभाव दिखाई देता है। देश की राजनैतिक मुक्ति और राष्ट्रीय पुनर्गठन के लिए स्वामी विवेकानन्द की तरह सुभाषचन्द्र बसु देश के युवा समाज के ऊपर सबसे अधिक निर्भर थे, जो सेवादर्श में उद्बुद्ध होकर संकीर्ण व्यक्तिगत, गोष्ठीगत या दलीय स्वार्थ का अतिक्रमण करने में समर्थ होंगे और संगठित प्रयास से समाज की सामग्रिक उन्नति के लिए कूद पड़ेंगे।

Author : Gary Craig
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1803926155
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Social Justice in a Turbulent Era written by Gary Craig and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2023-07-01 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This incisive book examines how the values of social justice can be protected against attacks from the interacting economic, social, environmental, and health crises of the 21st century. Global contributors outline key elements of a political programme that resists the shift to the right caused by this turbulence through centring fairness, equality, respect and inclusion.

Author : Romain Hayes
Publisher : Random House India
ISBN 13 : 8184002351
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bose in Nazi Germany written by Romain Hayes and published by Random House India. This book was released on 2011-11-20 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the late 1930s, Subhas Chandra Bose had become disillusioned with Gandhi’s leadership of the Indian National Congress and the nationalist struggle. With the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939, he resolved that India could only achieve freedom through a violent uprising. Two years later, in 1941, Bose went on to make a daring escape, via Afghanistan and Russia, to Berlin in search of an anti-British alliance. The Nazis seized Bose’s offer and the possibilities of an anti-British revolt in India, even envisaging German troops marching into the country as ‘liberators’. Meanwhile, thousands of British Indian troops captured in North Africa enlisted in the Wehrmacht hoping to join the Nazi march into India as they swore oaths to Hitler and Bose ‘in the fight for the freedom of India’. Yet for all their accord, the Bose-Nazi relationship remained complicated, full of ambivalences on both sides. This book for the first time, tells the story of Bose’s war years in Germany and examines his relationship with the Nazis. This period remains a deeply controversial moment in Indian history and has thus far been suffused with hagiography. Using rare German and Indian war records, Romain Hayes has written a nuanced, thoughtful, and vital account of these years, shedding light on an aspect of Bose that has till now remained in shadow.

Author : Karl Hack
Publisher : NUS Press
ISBN 13 : 9971695995
Total Pages : 478 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book War Memory and the Making of Modern Malaysia and Singapore written by Karl Hack and published by NUS Press. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Singapore fell to Japan on 15 February 1942. Within days, the Japanese had massacred thousands of Chinese civilians, and taken prisoner more than 100,000 British, Australian and Indian soldiers. A resistance movement formed in Malaya's jungle-covered mountains, but the vast majority could do little other than resign themselves to life under Japanese rule. The Occupation would last three and a half years, until the return of the British in September 1945. How is this period remembered? And how have individuals, communities, and states shaped and reshaped memories in the postwar era? The book response to these questions, presenting answers that use the words of Chinese, Malays, Indians, Eurasians, British and Australians who personally experienced the war years. The authors guide readers through many forms of memory: from the soaring pillars of Singapore's Civilian War Memorial, to traditional Chinese cemeteries in Malaysia; and from families left bereft by Japanese massacres, to the young women who flocked to the Japanese-sponsored Indian National Army, dreaming of a march on Delhi. This volume provides a forum for previously marginalized and self-censored voices, using the stories they relate to reflect on the nature of conflict and memory. They also offer a deeper understanding of the searing transit from wartime occupation to post-war decolonization and the moulding of postcolonial states and identities.

Author : Swami Chaitanyananda
Publisher : Advaita Ashrama (A Publication House of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 596 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Netaji Subhash – Volume I written by Swami Chaitanyananda and published by Advaita Ashrama (A Publication House of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math). This book was released on with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Netaji Subhash—A Life Illumined by the Light of Swami Vivekananda deals with two great sons of India, Swami Vivekananda and Subhash Chandra. The former was like a light that illumined the life and activities of the latter. Subhash drew strength from Swami Vivekananda and dived into the waters of heroic action for liberating India from British thraldom. This is Volume I of the set of two books published by Advaita Ashrama, a branch of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math, West Bengal, India.

Author : Srinath Raghavan
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 0465098622
Total Pages : 592 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book India's War written by Srinath Raghavan and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2016-05-10 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1939 and 1945 India underwent extraordinary and irreversible change. Hundreds of thousands of Indians suddenly found themselves in uniform, fighting in the Middle East, North and East Africa, Europe and-something simply never imagined-against a Japanese army poised to invade eastern India. With the threat of the Axis powers looming, the entire country was pulled into the vortex of wartime mobilization. By the war's end, the Indian Army had become the largest volunteer force in the conflict, consisting of 2.5 million men, while many millions more had offered their industrial, agricultural, and military labor. It was clear that India would never be same-the only question was: would the war effort push the country toward or away from independence? In India's War, historian Srinath Raghavan paints a compelling picture of battles abroad and of life on the home front, arguing that the war is crucial to explaining how and why colonial rule ended in South Asia. World War II forever altered the country's social landscape, overturning many Indians' settled assumptions and opening up new opportunities for the nation's most disadvantaged people. When the dust of war settled, India had emerged as a major Asian power with her feet set firmly on the path toward Independence. From Gandhi's early urging in support of Britain's war efforts, to the crucial Burma Campaign, where Indian forces broke the siege of Imphal and stemmed the western advance of Imperial Japan, Raghavan brings this underexplored theater of WWII to vivid life. The first major account of India during World War II, India's War chronicles how the war forever transformed India, its economy, its politics, and its people, laying the groundwork for the emergence of modern South Asia and the rise of India as a major power.

Author : Mihir Bose
Publisher : Vikas Publishing House
ISBN 13 : 9325973952
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Lost Hero written by Mihir Bose and published by Vikas Publishing House. This book was released on 1982 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History abounds with many heroes. The Indian freedom struggle had its own share of them. Subhas Chandra Bose fired the nation with patriotic fervour, very different in character to the non-violent approach preached by Gandhi. Truly an outsider to the movements of satyagraha and passive resistance that rapidly gained momentum, he made a valiant effort to galvanize the nation into action with evocative slogans such as – ‘Freedom is never given, it is taken' . . . 'Tum mujhe khoon do, main tumhe azadi doonga'. JAI HIND – India's national greeting ? was the salutation coined by him to arouse nationalistic passion among the Indians. In what was unthinkable then, Bose dared to ally with the Nazis and the Japanese, and raised an indigenous army called Azad Hind Fauj to challenge the military might of the British Empire. Why then has Subhas Chandra Bose been largely marginalized as a footnote in the history of India's independence? Perhaps the mythical legends that continue to shroud both his personal life and political happenstance hold some answers. The Lost Hero – a thoroughly researched biography of Subhas Bose – delves into the life and times of this great man, with the hope that he is granted a befitting place in the annals of Indian history.