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Synopsis A Companion volume of Unsung Torch Bearers: Punjab Congress Socialists in Freedom Struggle, this book carries their story forward by another decade and shows how they were in the front rank of not only freedom fighters but also of fighters against age-old social and economic oppression and exploitation after the attainment of freedom. Apart from containing 459 profiles (with 430 photographs) of these doughty fighters, this study provides a fascinating insight into the transformation of heroic fighters for freedom into vengeful despots and suppressors of freedom at the magic touch of unbridled power. Thoroughly researched and properly documented, it presents an important aspect of India's post-independence history and can certainly be described as indispensable for all serious-minded political scientists and researchers.