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Aapbeeti: Kale Pani ki Karawas Kahani
"Excepting Lala Lajpat Raiji; the land of the five rivers has not produced in modern history a nobler Indian Patriot; a more devoted worker in the cause of the political freedom of Hindusthan; our Father Land and our Holy Land; while in suffering and sacrifice none who could be compared with him.
"Many there be who join a great cause when it is victorious and paying; a few there are who join in the fight for it when chances of ultimate victory are not out of sight; but scarcely one in a million is found who refuses to budge an inch and continues the fight for an ideal single-handed and alone even when all is lost and all have either forsaken or betrayed. A Rana Pratap at Chittore; a Bhau Sahab Peshwa at Panipat! It is they who are the standard-bearers of a Nation; a Race; a Religion and it is when drenched in their blood that the Despair of a people is reborn as a Hope in the next generation. Their immediate defeat and death assure the life and victory of a Race. Of such a mettle as that is Bhai Parmananda fashioned."
—Swatantryavir Vinayak D. Savarkar
"Many there be who join a great cause when it is victorious and paying; a few there are who join in the fight for it when chances of ultimate victory are not out of sight; but scarcely one in a million is found who refuses to budge an inch and continues the fight for an ideal single-handed and alone even when all is lost and all have either forsaken or betrayed. A Rana Pratap at Chittore; a Bhau Sahab Peshwa at Panipat! It is they who are the standard-bearers of a Nation; a Race; a Religion and it is when drenched in their blood that the Despair of a people is reborn as a Hope in the next generation. Their immediate defeat and death assure the life and victory of a Race. Of such a mettle as that is Bhai Parmananda fashioned."
—Swatantryavir Vinayak D. Savarkar
169 pages, Hardcover
Published January 1, 2009
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December 13, 2017
The writer was a Professor of Modern European History at National College, Lahore and thus was a teacher of Bhagat Singh and Sukhdev. This was his memoir of his days in captivity at the Andamans. The book was proscribed by the British. Reading it, I realised, how much we have abused and continue to abuse our freedom.
July 25, 2020
History that we have not read
A very good book. Chapter 21-23 should be thought for students. People should know all the different opinions instead of just 1 narrative
A very good book. Chapter 21-23 should be thought for students. People should know all the different opinions instead of just 1 narrative
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