Product Overview
Covering the long journey of Indian history from 1947 to 2022, this book presents a fact-based analysis across nine chapters and is not a celebratory saga of progress but a detached and critical reading of history; while examining politics, foreign policy, and the economy during the era of Jawaharlal Nehru and his successors, the book naturally engages with India’s agrarian system and the movements that emerged around it, including detailed discussions of the Telangana and Naxalbari movements, which significantly enrich the narrative. The author weaves together analyses of Indira Gandhi’s Emergency, the Punjab crisis, the Kashmir issue, and the rise of Hindu nationalist politics into a coherent and tightly structured account, while the final chapter outlines the framework of repressive laws in independent India, helping general readers, researchers, and students alike to understand the contemporary period; with its rigorous presentation of facts and lean, unsentimental prose, the book enables readers to know, comprehend, and deeply feel the complexities of the country.
Product Overview
Covering the long journey of Indian history from 1947 to 2022, this book presents a fact-based analysis across nine chapters and is not a celebratory saga of progress but a detached and critical reading of history; while examining politics, foreign policy, and the economy during the era of Jawaharlal Nehru and his successors, the book naturally engages with India’s agrarian system and the movements that emerged around it, including detailed discussions of the Telangana and Naxalbari movements, which significantly enrich the narrative. The author weaves together analyses of Indira Gandhi’s Emergency, the Punjab crisis, the Kashmir issue, and the rise of Hindu nationalist politics into a coherent and tightly structured account, while the final chapter outlines the framework of repressive laws in independent India, helping general readers, researchers, and students alike to understand the contemporary period; with its rigorous presentation of facts and lean, unsentimental prose, the book enables readers to know, comprehend, and deeply feel the complexities of the country.
Product Specification
- Genre
- Non- Fiction
- Author
- Siddhartha Guha Roy
- ISBN
- 978-81-972168-1-7
- Pages
- 264
- Published
- 2024
About the Author
Siddhartha Guha Ray teaches history in Vivekananda College, affiliated with the University of Calcutta. He is the Head of the Department as well as the Coordinator of its postgraduate section. Guha Ray specialises in human rights and labour history and completed his PhD from the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta. His thesis focused on the history of the working class in the Calcutta Tramway Company. His notable works include Calcutta Tramwaymen: A Study of Working Class History, Human Rights, Democratic Rights and Popular Protest (2001). Furthermore, he has contributed to several journals of repute such as Economic and Political Weekly, Social Scientist, Mainstream, and Frontier. He is a well-known Human Rights Activist.
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