Civil Liberties Movement in India from Colonial Time to Present

Nilanjan Dutta has prepared for us an Indian civil liberty dossier and has done the community of human rights activists a much-needed service. The dossier arrives in the form of this book, Civil Liberties Movement in India. It chronicles a history of more than one hundred years of civil liberties movement and tells us of the involvement and activities of famous personalities in the cause of democratic rights. It records the rising and ebbing fortunes of causes and organisations. Equally importantly if not more it tells us of many forgotten activists who became leaders at times of crises when people would be afraid of coming out of homes. The book will be a primary reference for all those who want to understand the dynamics of contemporary human rights movement in the country, do scholarly work on this theme, and hopefully become thinking activists.