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Subhas: A Political Biography

 
Sitanshu Das (Author)
Synopsis In a society immured to its fallen state, any serious effort to awake it to the possibility of improvement demands leaders who should be demigods or prophets endowed with a capacity to work miracles. Demigods and prophets in the present-day are unavailable to work miracles. The redemption of India in the state of abasement demanded leaders who were either demo-Gods or warrior-redeemers. These leaders had to subject themselves to austerities of extreme severity in order to acquire moral authority necessary before they could get a hearing from their compatriots. If the leaders were avatars in human form, or at the very least, warrior-redeemers, they would have the capacity to individually carry the responsibility, and bear the cost of the endeavours, which in other circumstances, should have been shared collectively. What should have been a collective enterprise of the Indian people was often a responsibility borne by a few. These few were haunted by a call of duty which should have been answered by many. Extreme personal sacrifices were thus demanded of the relatively few great leaders of the freedom movement, and Subhas was haunted from his boyhood days by a sense of shame and guilt about the abasement of his people. Prolonged sufferings to which the imperial rulers subjected him changed him from a dreamy young man to a warrior-redeemer.
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About the author

Sitanshu Das

Sitanshu Das has been editor in the Indian Express Group of Newspapers, The Tribune Trust, Patriot and Link (weekly). Since he joined The Times of India, he has held senior domestic and foreign staff positions in major English-language newspapers of India. He was professor of journalism at the Indian Institute of Mass Communication and a member of the Court of the Banaras Hindu University. Abroad, aside from being the columnist of the Indian Express Group of Newspapers, for more than ten years, he was a member of the editorial board of the Fabian Society’s journals, Venture and Third World. A great deal of his research for The Future for Indian Democracy, a Fabian research publication, was done at the libraries of the Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House) and the International Institute for Strategic Studies, London. He was a long-standing member of both these learned bodies, especially their groups on regional affairs. He was a member of the BBC Programme Advisory Committee when Philip Mason was its chairman. He was a regular broadcaster on the British and other foreign TV/Radio networks. Educated at the universities of Allahabad and Calcutta, he also read Transport Economics at the London School of Economics.

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Bibliographic information

Title Subhas: A Political Biography
Author Sitanshu Das
Format Softcover
Date published: 01.01.2006
Edition 1st ed.
Publisher Rupa & Co.
Language: English
isbn 812910914X
length xii+634p., Plates; Bibliography; Index; 22cm.
Subjects Biography