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Rebels against the Raj : Western fighters for India's freedom / Ramachandra Guha.
Van Pelt - New Book Display DS479.1.A2 G83 2022
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Guha, Ramachandra, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Dissenters--India--Biography.
- Dissenters.
- Europeans--India--Biography.
- Europeans.
- Americans--India--Biography.
- Americans.
- Europeans--Political activity--India.
- Americans--Political activity--India.
- Political participation.
- India--History--British occupation, 1765-1947--Biography.
- India.
- History.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xix, 476 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2022.
- Summary:
- "From the acclaimed author of India After Gandhi: a group biography of seven remarkable men and women who arrived in India during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in order to join the freedom movement and struggle for a country and people other than their own"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: pt. I CROSSING OVER, CHANGING SIDES
- 1. Mothering India
- 2. Home Ruler, Congress President
- 3. Freedom-Loving Englishman
- 4. Anti-Colonial American
- 5. Daughtering Gandhi
- 6. Blowing Up India
- 7. Retreat of the Matriarch
- 8. Seekers North and South
- pt. II SEEING OUT THE RAJ
- 9. The Second Innings of B. G. Horniman
- 10. Going Solo
- 11. Recovering Revolutionary
- 12. From Samuel to Satyanand
- pt. III INDEPENDENT INDIANS
- 13. The Elusive Search for `Bapu Raj'
- 14. Reading from Left to Right
- 15. A Himalayan Heroine
- 16. Keithahn Soldiers On
- 17. The Last Gandhians.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [423]-457) and index.
- "This is a Borzoi Book published by Alfred A. Knopf" -- title page verso.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1924 Book Fund.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Guha, Ramachandra. Rebels against the Raj.
- ISBN:
- 9781101874837
- 110187483X
- 9781101873526
- 1101873523
- OCLC:
- 1281793678
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