Rebels Against the Raj: Western Fighters for India’s Freedom Hardcover – Deckle Edge, February 22, 2022 by Ramachandra Guha

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Author: Guha Ramachandra

Color: Black

Format: Deckle Edge

Package Dimensions: 27x235x712

Number Of Pages: 496

Release Date: 22-02-2022

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An extraordinary history of resistance and the fight for Indian independence—the little-known story of seven foreigners to India who joined the movement fighting for freedom from British colonial rule.

Rebels Against the Raj tells the story of seven people who chose to struggle for a country other than their own: foreigners to India who across the late 19th to late 20th century arrived to join the freedom movement fighting for independence from British colonial rule.

Of the seven, four were British, two American, and one Irish. Four men, three women. Before and after being jailed or deported they did remarkable and pioneering work in a variety of fields: journalism, social reform, education, the emancipation of women, environmentalism.

This book tells their stories, each renegade motivated by idealism and genuine sacrifice; each connected to Gandhi, though some as acolytes where others found endless infuriation in his views; each understanding they would likely face prison sentences for their resistance, and likely live and die in India; each one leaving a profound impact on the region in which they worked, their legacies continuing through the institutions they founded and the generations and individuals they inspired.

Through these entwined lives, wonderfully told by one of the world’s finest historians, we reach deep insights into relations between India and the West, and India’s story as a country searching for its identity and liberty beyond British colonial rule.

Review
“Guha’s elegantly written group portrait ably conveys the passion and idealism of the Gandhian independence movement and its hold over the Western imagination.”
—
Publishers Weekly
About the Author
RAMACHANDRA GUHA has taught at Yale and Stanford universities, the University of Oslo, the Indian Institute of Science, and the London School of Economics. His books include
Gandhi: The Years That Changed the World, 1914-1948, Gandhi Before India (a 2014
New York Times Notable Book and a
San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the Year), and the award-winning
India After Gandhi. He has written on social and political issues for
The New York Times, and for the British and Indian press, including columns in the
Daily Telegraph and the
Hindustan Times. He lives in Bangalore, India.