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Loading... His Majesty's Opponent: Subhas Chandra Bose and India's Struggle against Empire (edition 2011)by Sugata Bose
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. There are great men and then there are immortal men who touch the lives of millions, make history and are remembered forever. Subhas Chandra Bose belongs to the latter category. A must read everyone in the age group of 8 to 80. Whatever may be your background, be it an aspiring leader or an ordinary cog in a giant industrial wheel, this book has something for everybody. He can be termed as India's Buddha, Ataturk, Garibaldi and Napoleon as he did play those roles in trying to bring about India's freedom from the absolutely evil British Empire. There are great men and then there are immortal men who touch the lives of millions, make history and are remembered forever. Subhas Chandra Bose belongs to the latter category. A must read everyone in the age group of 8 to 80. Whatever may be your background, be it an aspiring leader or an ordinary cog in a giant industrial wheel, this book has something for everybody. He can be termed as India's Buddha, Ataturk, Garibaldi and Napoleon as he did play those roles in trying to bring about India's freedom from the absolutely evil British Empire. Although Sugata Bose has avoided the detailed reports of the various commissions set up by the Government of independent India to investigate the disappearance of Subhas Chandra Bose, which may feel misleading to a section of readers, the book is a truly remarkable biography, brilliantly written with a historian's dispassion. Read the review of His Majesty's Opponent at http://www.thebookoutline.com/2013/05/book-review-his-majestys-opponent.html no reviews | add a review
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The man whom Indian nationalists perceived as the "George Washington of India" and who was President of the Indian National Congress in 1938-1939 is a legendary figure. Called Netaji ("leader") by his countrymen, Subhas Chandra Bose struggled all his life to liberate his people from British rule and, in pursuit of that goal, raised and led the Indian National Army against Allied Forces during World War II. His patriotism, as Gandhi asserted, was second to none, but his actions aroused controversy in India and condemnation in the West. Now, in a definitive biography of the revered Indian nationalist, Sugata Bose deftly explores a charismatic personality whose public and private life encapsulated the contradictions of world history in the first half of the twentieth century. He brilliantly evokes Netaji's formation in the intellectual milieu of Calcutta and Cambridge, probes his thoughts and relations during years of exile, and analyzes his ascent to the peak of nationalist politics. Amidst riveting accounts of imprisonment and travels, we glimpse the profundity of his struggle: to unite Hindu and Muslim, men and women, and diverse linguistic groups within a single independent Indian nation. Finally, an authoritative account of his untimely death in a plane crash will put to rest rumors about the fate of this "deathless hero." This epic of a life larger than its legend is both intimate, based on family archives, and global in significance. His Majesty's Opponent establishes Bose among the giants of Indian and world history. No library descriptions found. |
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