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By Chandrachur Ghose . New Delhi Vitasta Publishing 2019 , Catastrophic truth about the fate of the man who freed India Sitting in a dilapidated house in a remote part of India, a 74-year-old man narrated in his deep baritone the layout of Jessore cantonment in East Pakistan to his handful of followers. They got the import only a few weeks later when Jessore fell to the advancing Indian Army. This was in December 1971, and Subhas Chandra Bose was officially dead for 25 years. Having spent over 15 years in procuring and scouring through thousands of records from across the world, interacting with eyewitnesses and consulting experts, the authors come to a history-bending conclusion that a mostly unseen, unnamed holy man who lived in various parts of UP from the 1950s to 1985 was Subhas Bose himself. From a “living” Netaji’s throwbacks about his contemporaries, his views on Constitutional issues and India’s foreign policy, to his forays into the world of paranormal and top-secret covert missions across the borders to heart-breaking disclosure why he could not emerge in public — no other book ever written in India is as bold and vast in its scope and implications. 9789386473578

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M K GANDHI : Indian Patriot In South Africa

By Joseph J Doke. New Delhi Publications Division 2018 9788123029078

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MY TRANSPORTATION FOR LIFE

By Veer Savarkar. New Delhi Prabhat Prakashan 2022 , The story is told. The curtain has been brought down on it. Two life-sentences have been run. And I have brought together my recollections of them within the cover of this book. They are narrated in brief and put together within the narrowest. When I came into this world, God sent me here possibly on a sort of life-sentence. It was the span of life allotted to me by time to stay in this ‘prison-house of life’. This story is but a chapter of that book of life, which is a longer story not yet ended. You can finish reading the book in a day, while I had to live it for 14 long years of transportation. And if the story is so tiresome, unendurable and disgusting to you, how much must have been the living of it for me! Every moment of those 14 years in that jail has been an agony of the soul and the body to me, and to my fellow convicts in that jail. It was not only fatiguing, unbearable and futile to us all, it was equally or more excruciating to them as to me. And it is only that you may know it and feel the fatigue, the disgust and the pain of it as we have felt it, that I have chosen to write it for you. —Excerpts from this book This is the story of Swatantrayaveer Vinayak Damodar Savarkar—a great revolutionary, politician, poet and seer who tried to free India from the British yoke! British policy was to torture and persecute the political prisoners/revolutionaries so that they would reveal the names of all their colleagues or go mad or commit suicide. My Transportation for Life is a firsthand story of the sufferings and humiliation of an inmate of the infamous Cellular Jail of Andamans, the legendary Kala Paani. The physical tortures inside the high walls were made all the more insufferable by the sickening attitude of the men who mattered—the native leaders back home. This is a running commentary on the prevalent political conditions in India and a treatise for students of revolution. It is a burning story of all Tapasvis who were transported to Andaman. 9789353220952

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SIX GLORIOUS EPOCHS OF INDIAN HISTORY

By Veer Savarkar. New Delhi Prabhat Prakashan 2022 , Six Glorious Epochs of Indian History is a learning experience which covers the period of Muslim invasions in India and brave retaliation by the natives. No less was the struggle of Indian manes against British rule and for freedom and liberation of the mother country. The author?s tribute to the martyrs and his letters to dear ones from Andamans, miscellaneous statements and writings are also included in this book. The first four epochs are covered in only hundred plus pages while the last two epochs span almost four hundred plus pages, signifying the importance that the author gave to this period. So far we have been given the picture of British rule, the history and politics in India by foreign and leftist writers, but in this book Veer Savarkar makes us look at the country?s history and politics from the Bharatiya perspective. Not only does he analyse the mistakes committed by Hindus since the time of Alexander?s invasion till the British rule, he tries to enlighten our minds with the prevalent situation in his time. All that he himself learnt from history, he tries to correct through this book of his. 9789353220976

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MAHATMA GANDHI : Life Through Lenses

By NIL. New Delhi Publication Division, Ministry of Information & Broadcasting 1954 , Athrl 150 years ag,,, a boy named Mohan was born. More 11 /0 years hence, the same boy, now 'Mahatrirt., departed * from our midst. Presently, after another seven decades o* death, his life and thoughts have transcended the passgeof tiftnhe7 With rare photographs detailing the life and times of Mahatma Gandhi, this book not only portrays the birth of a shy boy, his early years and education, his experiments with truth through his various movements-first in South Africa and then in India, but also the story of the intensive Indian Freedom Struggle of 20th century, of wh ich he was the main architect. This book was first brought out in 1954 by Publications Division, Ministry of Infarnation & Broadcasting, taking photographs from the Sarvodaya Divas Pradarshni organised at Rajghat in January 1949 to mark the first anniversary of Gandhiji% death. An abridged version of the album was published in 1969 to commemorate the Centenary birth anniversary of Bapu. This heritage ptiblication, with image support from National Gandhi Museum, New Delhi, is now again been brought out in its original 1954 edition with improved production quality and tasteful presentation. This is Publications Division's humble homage to Mahatma during Gandhi@l50 commemoration by the Government of India. 9788123030333

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BOSE DECEPTION : Declassified

By Anuj Dhar. Haryana Vintage 2024 , What exactly is this controversy about Netaji’s ‘disappearance’? Efforts by the authors led to the declassification of more than 1,300 secret files on Bose. Does new material offer new evidence on Bose’s reported death in 1945? The Bose Deception: Declassified opens a window to this and much more. In January 2016, the Government of India began declassifying classified PMO, MEA, MHA and Cabinet Secretariat files related to the mysterious ‘disappearance’ of Subhas Chandra Bose at the end of the Second World War. No one could have imagined that even seventy years after Bose’s disappearance, the government had been holding hundreds of files related to him in utmost secrecy. The official view that Bose died in a plane crash in Taiwan never found public acceptance, leading to multiple inquiries. Claims, counter-claims and conspiracy theories continued to complicate the mystery for nearly seventy-five years, primarily because of keeping information hidden from public view. In this fascinating investigative work, Dhar and Ghose have rummaged through more than two thousand files declassified in India, and in the UK, USA and Taiwan to unentangle the complex web of a deception plan, that has kept the whole country on tenterhooks for decades. They unravel the plot layer by layer to tell a story that is bound to shock the readers. 9780670097272

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NEHRU'S INDIA : Past, Present & Future (The Most Definitive Book on Jawaharlal Nehru)

By Aditya Mukherjee. Haryana Vintage - Penguin Books 2024 , Sovereignty, democracy, secularism, pro-poor orientation and modern scientific outlook, core values of the India’s Independence Movement have in short been described as ‘the Idea of India’. Jawaharlal Nehru not only fought for these values during the freedom struggle but also played a pivotal role to implement them in the newborn nation after independence. His life, philosophy and works throw light on his vision for India: its civilizational past, roadmap for the post-independent nation and possibilities for a future. With its focus on Nehru’s understanding of history and of India’s cultural past, the book opens a window to his deep understanding of communalism and commitment to secularism. His absolute faith in a democratic society and invaluable contribution to its nurturing in Indian soil, his efforts in building an independent and egalitarian economy, and a society suffused with scientific temper, provides us multiple insights into the life and work of one of the greatest figures of the twentieth century. Six decades after his demise, do Nehru’s principles which reflected the values of India’s independence movement still hold water? Candid, argumentative and thought-provoking, Nehru’s India is a brilliant work on the man who made sincere efforts to discover, champion and defend the idea of India. 9780143471950

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HIND SWARAJ : Revolutionary Book That Shook The Foundation of The British Imperialism

By Gandhi, M K. Haryana Vintage - Penguin Books 2024 , Hind Swaraj is one of the most significant works of Mahatma Gandhi, which he penned during his return from England to South Africa in November 1909. Banned by the oppressive British Empire in 1910, this book is a clarion call for Indians to realize the criticality of unshackling from the bondage of imperialism. It encouraged Indians to take pride in its all-encompassing cultural and civilizational heritage. Making Satyagraha a vantage point to understand Gandhi’s life philosophy and works, this volume champions the ideas of non-violent resistance, freedom and interdependence for Swaraj. How can a state, its government, institutions and citizens create an ideal ecosystem of mutual relationships based on trust, non-violence and respect for growth and development? A must-read for policymakers, history enthusiasts, students and scholars of Gandhian studies, sociology and politics, it is one of the most compelling works to understand Gandhi’s vision for a self-reliant India. 9780143466017

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BOSE OR GANDHI : Who Got India Her Freedom ? With New Postscript

By Bakshi G D. New Delhi KW Publishers 2021 , This book seeks to answer a seminal question about Nation state formation in Post colonial India, "Who got us our Freedom and how?" Was it due to the violence of Bose and His INA- or was it due to the peaceful and non-violent agitation of Mahatma Gandhi? Where we are going depends a lot on where we came from. The author has painstakingly analysed the documents now available in the British Transfer of Power Archives. He has methodically identified the key British decision makers in London and New Delhi in the critical period from 1945-1947, and examined their letters and reports about the INA trials and their violent aftermath (November-December 1945) and then the mutiny in the Royal Indian Navy (February 1946). Relevant letters from the Viceroy and military appreciation of the situation by Fd Mshl Auchinleck, alongwith reports from the Governors of the various provinces, as also the report of the Director IB, have been reproduced in the original alongwith Letters from the Prime minister Lord Clement Attlee and Secretary of state for India, Pethik Lawerence. The documentary paper trail is chillingly clear. The British were shaken by the wide spread violence in support of the INA and the serious question mark it raised about the continued loyalty of some 2.5 million Indian soldiers then being de-mobilized after the war. There were less than 40,000 British troops in India then. They were war-weary and home-sick. How could they have quelled a revolt by 2.5 million combat hardened Indian Soldiers? It was this stark maths that forced the British to leave when they did. Nelson Mandela in South Africa, continued with the non-violent methods of the Mahatma. Unfortunately South Africa got its freedom only in April 1994. The unfortunate fact is that the British left but handed over power to an anglophile elite that faithfully carried on with the narratives and constructs of the Raj.. 9789387324671

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CONUNDRUM : Subhas Bose's Life After Death

By Chandrachur Ghose . New Delhi Vitasta Publishing 2025 , Catastrophic truth about the fate of the man who freed India Sitting in a dilapidated house in a remote part of India, a 74-year-old man narrated in his deep baritone the layout of Jessore cantonment in East Pakistan to his handful of followers. They got the import only a few weeks later when Jessore fell to the advancing Indian Army. This was in December 1971, and Subhas Chandra Bose was officially dead for 25 years. Having spent over 15 years in procuring and scouring through thousands of records from across the world, interacting with eyewitnesses and consulting experts, the authors come to a history-bending conclusion that a mostly unseen, unnamed holy man who lived in various parts of UP from the 1950s to 1985 was Subhas Bose himself. From a “living” Netaji’s throwbacks about his contemporaries, his views on Constitutional issues and India’s foreign policy, to his forays into the world of paranormal and top-secret covert missions across the borders to heart-breaking disclosure why he could not emerge in public — no other book ever written in India is as bold and vast in its scope and implications. 9789386473578

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AMBEDKAR, GANDHI AND PATEL : Great Leaders of India

By Mahesh Chandra Mishra. New Delhi World Heritage 2019 9789388121187

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GOVERNORS OF EMPIRE : East India Company's Chief Functionaries in India

By Amar Farooqui. New Delhi Aleph Book Company 2025 , In April 1608, when a ship named Hector—belonging to the English East India Company—arrived on the shores of Surat in present-day Gujarat, no one foresaw how some of the merchants on board would go on to alter the course of history in India. From the moment of its docking to the Revolt of 1857, a succession of its eminent passengers helped transform the Company from a trading collective to a colonizing juggernaut. In Governors of Empire, historian Amar Farooqui traces the journeys each of these men undertook, from arriving on Indian shores, through acquiring territories using equal parts trade agreements and political deceit, all the way to returning to Britain considerably wealthier than before. Beginning with Robert Clive, the self-proclaimed hero of the British imperial project who played a pivotal role in the annexation of Bengal, the book follows several important governors whose actions ultimately delivered India into the hands of the Crown. After Clive came Warren Hastings, who began his tenure as governor of Bengal and settled down to govern both Bengal and Bihar. His 'rule was followed by the regime of Charles Cornwallis, often portrayed as the golden age of British rule in India—a claim supported by colonially-sponsored historiography alone. After him, lesser-known figures like John Shore and Robert Hobart were followed by Richard Wellesley, under whom the system of 'subsidiary alliances became a regular feature of the Companies expansionist policy in India. Lord Moira came next, and demolished the peshwai, destroying the rule of the Marathas in western India. William Bentincks governor-generalship then marked an interlude before a violent phase of large-scale warfare that completed the Companies conquest of the subcontinent. Lord Dalhousie, who followed Bentinck, played a key role in the annexation of Punjab and Awadh, expanding the Companies frontiers to cover swathes of northern India. He was succeeded by Charles Canning, the last governor general to be appointed by the Company, and John Lawrence, the last of the Companies old timers to rule over the Indian empire (he was crucial to the recapture of Delhi after the Revolt of 1857). Through rigorously drawn portraits of the Companies key functionaries, Governors of Empire brings to vivid life the story of the East India Companies conquest of India through the lives and deeds of its governors. 9788119635283

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1857 INDIAN UPRISING

By Sukhbir Singh. New Delhi Academic Aspirations 2022 9788192492339

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SWADESHI AND SWARAJ :The Rise of New Patriotism

By Bipinchandra pal. Delhi LG Publishers Distributors 1907 , The Rise of New Patriotism by Bipin Chandra Pal is a collection of influential writings and speeches that articulate the intellectual and political foundations of the Swadeshi movement in early twentieth-century India. The book brings together Pal’s reflections on nationalism, self-reliance, and the demand for Swaraj (self-rule), originally expressed between 1902 and 1907. Through powerful arguments and passionate advocacy, Pal emphasizes economic independence, national education, and mass political awakening as essential steps toward freedom from British colonial rule. The volume serves both as a primary historical source and as an important record of the rise of assertive Indian nationalism during a crucial phase of the independence movement. 9789383723690

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MOPLAH REBELLION 1921

By Gopalan Nair, C . New Delhi Voice of India 2020 , Any history of Khilafat -Non-co-operation movement which leaves out the role of the Moplahs in the horrible genocide of Hindus can never be taken as an authentic historical narrative. Thus, in the official historiography that we have since Nehru's days, the dominant view is that India's struggle for independence was primarily non-violent and it was thus entirely Gandhian. In this framework, many episodes, many personalities, many substantive issues--like the long history of violence-ridden Muslim separatism-communalism and much relevant explanations were strictly avoided This book based on the newspaper reports mainly the Madras Mail and the West Coast Spectator, and Government proceedings/statements, spread over two hundred pages, the author has done a factual and honest work that captures the horrible scenario in all its complexity. Thus, we can treat it as a primary source of credible information. Only if, all administrators could write like this, our history writing could have been so much easier! 9789385485220

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INDIAN NATIONAL ARMY AND SUBHAS CHANDRA BOSE THROUGH JAPANESE SOURCES Volume 2

By Sareen, T R. New Delhi Life Span Publishers 2020 , Volume II mainly includes the Japanese documents, Memoirs, Press reports Intercepted Radio Broadcasts on the Japanese policy towards INA and S. C. Bose, on the formation of the Provisional Government of Azad Hind, the position and status of INA with the Japanese Army during their march towards India. Memoirs of the head of the Hikar Kikan, General Suburo throw new light on the personality of Bose. It is hoped the documents will be quite helpful to the scholars to study the Japanese view of the INA and S. C. Bose in proper perspective. 9788194458838

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HISTORY OF INDIA : Introduction

By Umberto Mondini. Jodhpur Books Treasure 2021 9789384385637

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