When it appeared in 1953, Uma Prasad’s book on Dr. Syama Prasad Mookerjee’s detention and death in Kashmir created a wave of indignation. It reproduced docu

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Many great people in India’s postIndependence history have gone into oblivion only because they were not part of the Nehruvian consensus or refused to adopt m

Contents: Introduction, The Nationalist Ideas Behind the Revolt of 1857, Nationalism Takes Root: The Moderates, The Indian Struggle for Independence 1885 to 190