Tag: Subhas

His Majesty’s Opponent Subhas Chandra Bose and India’s Struggle against Empire


Free Download Sugata Bose, "His Majesty’s Opponent: Subhas Chandra Bose and India’s Struggle against Empire"
English | 2011 | ISBN: 0674047540, 0674065964 | PDF | pages: 441 | 2.3 mb
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.

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Mahanayak Subhas Chandra Bose


Free Download Vishwas Patil, Keerti Ramachandra, "Mahanayak: Subhas Chandra Bose"
English | 2019 | pages: 602 | ISBN: 9395767332 | EPUB | 5,2 mb
This iconic Marathi novel by Vishwas Patil brings originality and new ideas to the most storied of lives-Subhas Chandra Bose. Possibly the most enigmatic figure in the history of India’s freedom struggle, Bose’s ideological differences with the two stalwarts of the Independence movement, Gandhi and Nehru, split the Congress down the middle. And yet he held them in high esteem, just as they admired him. While Bose asserted the independence of his own values even as he sought help from the Axis powers-Nazi Germany, Italy and later Japan-during World War II, for the cause of a free India, it was seen as treasonous and dangerous by many.

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