The Dream of Revolution : A Biography of Jayaprakash Narayan / Bimal Prasad and Sujata Prasad.

By:

Prasad, Bimal

Contributor(s):

Prasad, Sujata

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Publication details: Gurugram, Haryana, India : Vintage, an imprint of Penguin Random House, 2021.Edition: 1st edDescription: xv, 271 p. : ill ; 24 cmISBN:

9780670096176
0670096172

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

23 954.035092 PRA

Contents:

1. The formative years 2. Evolution of political life 3. The Congress Socialist years 4. The making of a national hero 5. Parting of ways 6. Emergence of new fault lines 7. From Socialism to Sarvodaya 8. The sting in the tail 9. Hope in dark times 10. The death of a dream.

Summary: Few figures in modern India have enjoyed such acclaim and adoration as Jayaprakash Narayan. And yet, he has been equally vilified for all that went wrong in the unfinished post-colonial movement for freedom and democracy. Jayaprakash Narayan, or JP as he was universally known, epitomized the Marxian and Gandhian styles of political engagement, and famously brought a powerful government to its knees. Throughout his life, he channeled an emotional hunger for transformative politics, jettisoned easy options, shunned power and incubated revolutionary ideas. A comprehensive study of JP's life and ideas-from the radicalism of his thought process at American university campuses in the 1920s to his political coming of age in the 1930s and subsequent disenchantment with Gandhi's leadership; from his infectious confidence about the future of socialism to his seemingly naive plans to outmanoeuvre powerful forces within the Congress; from his fractious friendship with Jawaharlal Nehru to his relentless crusade against the stifling of dissent-The Dream of Revolution, Bimal and Sujata Prasad's rigorously researched biography of JP, dispenses with clichés, questions commonly held perceptions and pushes the limits of what a biographical portrait is capable of. Rich in anecdotes and never-before-told stories, this book explores the ambiguities and ironies of a life lived at the barricades, and one man's unremitting quest to usher in a society based on equality and freedom.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
General Books	CUTN Central Library History & Geography	Non-fiction	954.035092 PRA (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		44402

1. The formative years
2. Evolution of political life
3. The Congress Socialist years
4. The making of a national hero
5. Parting of ways
6. Emergence of new fault lines
7. From Socialism to Sarvodaya
8. The sting in the tail
9. Hope in dark times
10. The death of a dream.

Few figures in modern India have enjoyed such acclaim and adoration as Jayaprakash Narayan. And yet, he has been equally vilified for all that went wrong in the unfinished post-colonial movement for freedom and democracy. Jayaprakash Narayan, or JP as he was universally known, epitomized the Marxian and Gandhian styles of political engagement, and famously brought a powerful government to its knees. Throughout his life, he channeled an emotional hunger for transformative politics, jettisoned easy options, shunned power and incubated revolutionary ideas.

A comprehensive study of JP's life and ideas-from the radicalism of his thought process at American university campuses in the 1920s to his political coming of age in the 1930s and subsequent disenchantment with Gandhi's leadership; from his infectious confidence about the future of socialism to his seemingly naive plans to outmanoeuvre powerful forces within the Congress; from his fractious friendship with Jawaharlal Nehru to his relentless crusade against the stifling of dissent-The Dream of Revolution, Bimal and Sujata Prasad's rigorously researched biography of JP, dispenses with clichés, questions commonly held perceptions and pushes the limits of what a biographical portrait is capable of.

Rich in anecdotes and never-before-told stories, this book explores the ambiguities and ironies of a life lived at the barricades, and one man's unremitting quest to usher in a society based on equality and freedom.

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