| Publisher |
Penguin India |
| Publication Year |
2007 |
| ISBN-13 |
9780143102632 |
| ISBN-10 |
014310263X |
| Binding |
Paperback |
| Number of Pages |
720 Pages |
| Language |
(English) |
| Weight (grms) |
760 |
Brings together over 100 of the most influential speeches in our history. This work includes Dadabhai Naoroji's maiden address to the House of commons in 1892, Jawaharlal Nehru's tryst with destiny, as well as speeches on an eclectic range of subjects, politics, economics, science, social and religious reforms, and more
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.
Rakesh Batabyal
Penguin India