{"product_id":"building-a-free-india-defining-rakesh-batabyal-9789354473630","title":"Building a Free India Defining Speeches of Our Independence Movement That Shaped the Nation","description":"\u003cp\u003eDescription\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs the Indian independence movement progressed-from the economic\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ecritique of colonial rule by the early nationalists, to the unequivocal demand\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003efor Purna Swaraj and the immense moral authority of the Mahatma Gandhiled\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eresistance-the notion of an equal society that ensured dignity to all-\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eirrespective of caste, class, gender or religion-came to occupy a central\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eplace in it. By the time the Constituent Assembly met in December 1946, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003enot just civil rights, but the particular rights of women, of minorities, of the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDepressed Classes and the Adivasis were being articulated and demanded, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003enot as favours but as a matter of course. As the editor of this volume writes in\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ehis brilliant introduction, the effect of the speeches delivered by the leaders\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eof our national movement was to focus 'political action towards scripting an\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eennobling nationalism that would give us a just and equal society'.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBuilding a Free India brings together these landmark speeches delivered over\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eroughly a century by the leading lights of the national movement-from\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNaoroji, Surendranath Banerjee, Bhikaiji Cama, Lajpat Rai and Tilak, to\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGandhi, Nehru, Ambedkar, Bose, Sarojini Naidu and Maulana Azad-as well\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eas a range of lesser-known but equally remarkable figures. This unprecedented\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ecollection is not only an invaluable history of our freedom movement but\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ealso of the ideas of universal equality, dignity and justice that are-and must\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ealways remain-at the root of our democracy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Rakesh Batabyal\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 9354473636\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9789354473630\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Speaking Tiger Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/20\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 370\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.03lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.82d\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rakesh Batabyal","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44078030127359,"sku":"9789354473630","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_93eb09ef-d247-498c-afbe-41f2b8e0e0b5.jpg?v=1685473145","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/building-a-free-india-defining-rakesh-batabyal-9789354473630","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}