Inqilab

by Khwaja Ahmad Abbas

"Inqilab is a vivid story, vivid because it is based on facts."
- The Hindustan Standard.

"...we can greet it as a very readable book."
- The Hindu

" Here is a vast picture-gallery where throng revolutionaries and non-conformists. Marxists and Gandhiites, martyrs and sycophants, princes and pimps."
- The Illustrated Weekly of India.

"This novel is in many respects, a true portrayal of the Indian political struggle for freedom and deserves recognition in India and abroad."
- The Hindustan Times.

"This history brought back to life by one who is well-known all over India should be read with delight and profit by all Indians."
- The Amrita Bazar Patrika.

"...it can be said that Khwaja Ahmad Abbas has accomplished this task with consummate success."
- The Sunday Standard

355 pages, Paperback

First published September 1, 1955

About the author

Khwaja Ahmad Abbas (Hindi: ख़्वाजा अहमद अब्बास) (7 June 1914 – 1 June 1987), popularly known as K. A. Abbas, was an Indian film director, novelist, screenwriter, and a journalist in the Urdu, Hindi and English languages. He was the maker of important Hindi films such as Saat Hindustani (1969) and Do Boond Pani (1972), both of which won the National Film Award for Best Feature Film on National Integration, Palme d'Or nominated (Cannes Film Festival) Pardesi (1957) and Shehar Aur Sapna (1963), which won the National Film Award for Best Feature Film.

As a screenwriter, Khwaja Ahmad Abbas is considered one of pioneers of Indian parallel or neo-realistic cinema, having penned films like the Palme d'Or winner at the Cannes Film Festival, Neecha Nagar (1946), Jagte Raho, Dharti Ke Lal, Awara, Saat Hindustani and Naya Sansar. Apart from this, he wrote the best of Raj Kapoor films, Awaara, Shri 420, Mera Naam Joker, Bobby and Henna.[1]

His column ‘Last Page’, holds the distinction of being one of the longest-running columns in the history of Indian journalism. The column began in 1935, in Bombay Chronicle, and moved to the Blitz after the Chronicle's closure, where it continued until his death in 1987.[2] He was awarded the Padma Shri in 1969, by Government of India.

Reviews

[Neer · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a wonderful read as barely-remembered figures from the past people its pages. The forgotten incidents capture the struggle for freedom. The favourite read of the year 2012.

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