Thursday, February 09, 2006

India Wins Freedom - Maulana Abul Kalam Azad

An autobiography of the forgotten hero of Indian Freedom Movement. He served the longest term of Congress president and till India actually became independent. This book after long controversies saw the day of light in 1997. Detailed, straight and critical in its style provides the differences that existed during the freedom movement and how difficult was it to conceive of a country which never existed as a single government. More over it also describes if partition was really necessary for India. Some of the questions raised also are characteristics of each personality Nehru, Patel, Gandhi and Jinnah.

A nice read to realize the true team work of Indian politics of pre-independent India. Shows unparallel knowledge and wisdom of the author.

3 comments:

sps.iitb said...

Is this book available online??

Sambit Kumar Dash said...

I am not sure if it's available as a electronic document. You can buy online from amazon or other online book stores.

Here is the Amazon link:

http://www.amazon.com/India-Wins-Freedom-Maulana-Kalam/dp/8125005145

Faiz said...

Yes the Book is available on Google..
one can read the complete book...

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