| Year | FEBRUARY, 2023 |
| Edition | First Edition |
| Pages | XXII+388 |
| Size | 8.8*5.5 |
| Binding | HB |
| ISBN | 978-81-95-7060-0-6 |
Civil Liberties Movement In India – From Colonial Times to the Present
The trampling of rights of citizens is nothing new, nor is the civil rights movement in India which stands for justice. This discourse which spreads over 12 chapters tells us the fascinating story of the growth and development of civil liberties movement in Indian subcontinents over a century and more. It offers the first ever comprehensive history of the civil liberties movement in India. The account present a history of actions as well as a history of ideas, skillfully combining an activist passion and academic’s rigour. Rare photographs of the movement along with the lucid style of narrative has made this book indispensable for the international human rights community, who will find in it ample material to affirm their conviction that the human rights are universal and indivisible. Scholars of political science and sociology will be provoked to take a relook at the process of formation and development of the civil society in the colonial and post-colonial conditions. Future researchers will be directed to a plethora of primary sources.
Civil Liberties Movement In India
From Colonial Times to the Present
Foreword: A Civil LibertyDossier
By Ranabir Sammaddar
Prologue
‘…if the English could do these things in cold blood’
The campaign against Torture in Madras 1852-1856
‘Struggle there must be’
The birth of organized Civil Liberties movement in India 1917-1918
Rights and Restraints
Civil Liberties and the Nationalist Agenda: 1919-1931
‘This Important National Work’
Situating Civil Liberties in the Anti-Colonial Struggle: 1931-1936
Liberty to some ‘license’ to others
Dreams and Dilemmas of the Civil Liberties Unions in Bengal and India 1936-1937
Campaigning and Credibility
‘To expose and explain before the people…’ 1937-1938
‘No perceptible decrease in breaches’
Report-cards for rights during provincial autonomy 1937-1939
‘…difficult causes of liberty and peace’
Keeping the flame alive through the war and transfer of power
‘TO make or mar the nation’
The Civil Liberties Committee and the ‘Infant state’
‘To maintain continuous vigilance’
An All-India network emerges again
Organizing Amid ‘Orgy of Repression’
Rights bodies formed before and during the Emergency
The Only Way Is the Way Forward
Towards ‘a wider appreciation of the rights agenda’
Epilogue
Sources
Nilanjan Dutta
Nilanjan Dutta is a renowned human rights activist for the last thirty years. He has researched on the same topic with a fellowship from SOAS Law Department.
