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Join us in the spirit of Independence Day with these reads!

From stories of India’s freedom struggle, to exploring the country’s independent identity, we have handpicked a range of books that you would like to add to your TBR or get started with this Independence Day.

 

India’s Struggle for Independence
India’s Struggle for Independence ||

 

India’s Struggle for Independence is the first and most reliable study of India’s epic struggle for freedom. This classic work begins with the abortive revolt against the British in 1857 and culminates in Indian Independence in 1947. Based on years of research as well as personal interviews with hundreds of freedom fighters, it presents a lucid and enduring view of the history of the period.

 

 

 

Discovery of India
The Discovery of India || Jawaharlal Nehru

 

Jawaharlal Nehru wrote this book during his imprisonment at Ahmednagar fort for participating in the Quit India Movement (1942 – 1946). It was his way of paying an homage to his beloved country and its rich culture. The book starts from ancient history, Nehru wrote at length of Vedas, Upanishads and textbooks on ancient time, and ends during the British Raj. It is considered as one of the finest writing on Indian History.

 

The Man Who Saved India
The Man Who Saved India || Hindol Sengupta

 

There is perhaps no political figure in modern history who did more to secure and protect the Indian nation than Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel. But, ironically, seventy years after Patel brought together piece by piece the map of India by fusing the princely states with British India to create a new democratic, independent nation, little is understood or appreciated about Patel’s enormous contribution to the making of India.

This book is a sweeping, magisterial retelling of Sardar Patel’s story. With fiercely detailed and pugnacious anecdotes, multiple award-winning, best-selling writer Hindol Sengupta brings alive Patel’s determined life of struggle and his furious commitment to keep India safe.

 

India Unbound
India Unbound || Gurcharan Das

 

The riveting story of a nation’s rise from poverty to prosperity and the clash of ideas that occurred along the way. Gurcharan Das examines the highs and lows of independent India through the prism of history, his own experiences and those of numerous others he has met—from young people in sleepy UP villages to chiefs of software companies in Bangalore.

 

 

Ambedkar’s Preamble
Ambedkar’s Preamble || Aakash Singh Rathore

 

In a radical shift from mainstream constitutional history, this book establishes Dr B.R. Ambedkar’s irrefutable authorship of the preamble by uncovering the intellectual origins of its six most central concepts: justice, liberty, equality, fraternity, dignity, and nation. Through six eponymous chapters, this book unfolds the story of the six constitutional concepts. In doing so, it also spotlights fundamental facts about modern Indian history.

 

 

 

Sixteen Stormy Days
Sixteen Stormy Days || Tripurdaman Singh

 

Sixteen Stormy Days narrates the riveting story of the First Amendment to the Constitution of India—one of the pivotal events in Indian political and constitutional history, and its first great battle of ideas. Drawing on parliamentary debates, press reports, judicial pronouncements, official correspondence and existing scholarship, Sixteen Stormy Days challenges conventional wisdom on iconic figures such as Jawaharlal Nehru, B.R. Ambedkar, Rajendra Prasad, Sardar Patel and Shyama Prasad Mookerji, and lays bare the vast gulf between the liberal promise of India’s Constitution and the authoritarian impulses of her first government.

 

 

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