Building a Free India : Defining Speeches of Our Independence Movement that Shaped the NationI

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Rakesh Batabyal

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Speaking Tiger

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Publisher

Speaking Tiger

Publication Year 2022
ISBN-13

9789354473579

ISBN-10 9354473571
Binding

Paperback

Number of Pages 368 Pages
Language (English)
Weight (grms) 370

As the Indian independence movement progressed—from the economic critique of colonial rule by the early nationalists, to the unequivocal demand for Purna Swaraj and the immense moral authority of the Mahatma Gandhi-led resistance—the notion of an equal society that ensured dignity to all— irrespective of caste, class, gender or religion—came to occupy a central place in it. By the time the Constituent Assembly met in December 1946, not just civil rights, but the particular rights of women, of minorities, of the Depressed Classes and the Adivasis were being articulated and demanded, not as favours but as a matter of course. As the editor of this volume writes in his brilliant introduction, the effect of the speeches delivered by the leaders of our national movement was to focus ‘political action towards scripting an ennobling nationalism that would give us a just and equal society’.


Building a Free India brings together these landmark speeches delivered over roughly a century by the leading lights of the national movement—from Naoroji, Surendranath Banerjee, Bhikaiji Cama, Lajpat Rai and Tilak, to Gandhi, Nehru, Ambedkar, Bose, Sarojini Naidu and Maulana Azad—as well as a range of lesser-known but equally remarkable figures. This unprecedented collection is not only an invaluable history of our freedom movement but also of the ideas of universal equality, dignity and justice that are—and must always remain—at the root of our democracy.

Rakesh Batabyal

Rakesh Batabyal is an alumni of Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He teaches history and theory of media at the Centre for Media Studies, JNU. He is the author of Communalism in Bengal: From Famine to Noakhali (1943–47) (Sage Publications, 2005) and JNU: The Making of a University (HarperCollins, 2015), which has created a new framework for the writing of history of institutions in India. He has also edited The Penguin Book of Modern Indian Speeches (Penguin Random House, 2007). The Inaugural Indian Chair Professor at Tokyo University, Batabyal has a sustained interest in global history and is currently working on the long-term history of nationalism and communalism in South Asia.
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