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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.
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A New Yorker Best Book of the Year
“Insightful… Captivating… Guha’s previous works have distinguished him as an exceptional chronicler of India’s modern history. His latest volume provides fresh perspectives on the independence struggle that will appeal to those seeking more obscure eyewitness accounts. And since the book’s main figures were born outside of India, Rebels Against the Raj may strike a chord with contemporary outsiders who themselves have been seduced by India’s history and culture.” —Samir Puri, New York Times
"Mr Guha’s new book [is] a reminder of how many outsiders held (and hold) deep affection for India and its democratic cause... The stories of his seven subjects—four men and three women—are deftly interwined... Mr Guha does not overstate the role of these foreigners... His account does not change the broad narrative of how Indians won freedom for themselves. Its real point is as much about the future as the past—an argument for the tolerant, outward-looking country India could once again become." —The Economist
"Fascinating and provocative reading... Guha organizes his material expertly and presents it clearly and stylishly, illuminating an aspect of Raj history which is often forgotten or neglected but which is nonetheless crucial... This superb book... add[s] a new dimension to the histories both of subject India and of imperial Britain – and [is] a thoroughly good read." —Bernard Porter, The Literary Review
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Superb introductory history "Indus Civilization"
- De DesiBOOKworm en 08-11-20
De: Michel Danino
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Sita: A Tale of Ancient Love
- De: Bhanumathi Narasimhan
- Narrado por: Anahita Uberoi
- Duración: 9 h y 34 m
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Sita, the beloved princess of Mithila, is one of the most revered women in Indian history; so well known, yet probably the least understood. At every crossroad of her life, she chose acceptance and grace over self-pity. Her life was filled with sacrifice yet wherever she was, there was abundance. It was as if she was carved out of an intense longing for Rama, yet she had infinite patience.
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amazing.
- De Dillon en 01-17-23
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Savarkar (Part 2) A
- A Contested Legacy, 1924-1966
- De: Vikram Sampath
- Narrado por: Pratik Sharma
- Duración: 16 h y 34 m
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Decades after his death, Vinayak Damodar Savarkar continues to uniquely influence India's political scenario. An optimistic advocate of Hindu-Muslim unity in his treatise on the 1857 War of Independence, what was it that transformed him into a proponent of "Hindutva"? A former president of the All-India Hindu Mahasabha, Savarkar was a severe critic of the Congress's appeasement politics.
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Very good book - Must read
- De Anirudha Kulkarni en 04-03-23
De: Vikram Sampath
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Indica: A Deep Natural History of the Indian Subcontinent
- De: Pranay Lal
- Narrado por: Vikrant Chaturvedi
- Duración: 12 h
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From the oldest rocks, formed three billion years ago in Karnataka, to the arrival of our ancestors 50,000 years ago on the banks of the Indus, the author meticulously sifts through wide-ranging scientific disciplines and through the layers of earth to tell us the story of India, filled with a variety of fierce reptiles, fantastic dinosaurs, gargantuan mammals and amazing plants.
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Fascinating telling of the story of the earth and it's people.
- De Randy en 08-04-24
De: Pranay Lal
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Café Europa Revisited
- How to Survive Post-Communism
- De: Slavenka Drakulic
- Narrado por: Kathleen Gati
- Duración: 8 h y 26 m
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An immigrant with a parrot in Stockholm, a photo of a girl in Lviv, a sculpture of Alexander the Great in Skopje, a memorial ceremony for the 50th anniversary of the Soviet led army invasion of Prague: these are a few glimpses of life in Eastern Europe today. Three decades after the Velvet Revolution, Slavenka Drakulic, the author of Cafe Europa and A Guided Tour of the Museum of Communism, takes a look at what has changed and what has remained the same in the region in her daring new essay collection.
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The Long Reckoning
- A Story of War, Peace, and Redemption in Vietnam
- De: George Black
- Narrado por: Elyse Dinh
- Duración: 17 h y 35 m
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The American war in Vietnam has left many long-lasting scars that have not yet been sufficiently examined. The worst of them were inflicted in a tiny area bounded by the demilitarized zone between North and South and the Ho Chi Minh Trail in neighboring Laos. That small region saw the most intense aerial bombing campaign in history, the massive use of toxic chemicals, and the heaviest casualties on both sides.
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same thing over and over
- De C. Brieant en 12-02-23
De: George Black
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The Lost River
- De: Michel Danino
- Narrado por: Vishal Menon
- Duración: 10 h y 8 m
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The Indian subcontinent was the scene of dramatic upheavals a few thousand years ago. The Northwest region entered an arid phase, and erosion coupled with tectonic events played havoc with river courses. One of them disappeared. Celebrated as Sarasvati in the Rig Veda and the Mahabharata, this river was rediscovered in the early 19th century through topographic explorations by British officials. Recently, geological and climatological studies have probed its evolution and disappearance, while satellite imagery has traced the river's buried courses....
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Superb introductory history "Indus Civilization"
- De DesiBOOKworm en 08-11-20
De: Michel Danino
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Sita: A Tale of Ancient Love
- De: Bhanumathi Narasimhan
- Narrado por: Anahita Uberoi
- Duración: 9 h y 34 m
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Sita, the beloved princess of Mithila, is one of the most revered women in Indian history; so well known, yet probably the least understood. At every crossroad of her life, she chose acceptance and grace over self-pity. Her life was filled with sacrifice yet wherever she was, there was abundance. It was as if she was carved out of an intense longing for Rama, yet she had infinite patience.
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amazing.
- De Dillon en 01-17-23
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Savarkar (Part 2) A
- A Contested Legacy, 1924-1966
- De: Vikram Sampath
- Narrado por: Pratik Sharma
- Duración: 16 h y 34 m
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Decades after his death, Vinayak Damodar Savarkar continues to uniquely influence India's political scenario. An optimistic advocate of Hindu-Muslim unity in his treatise on the 1857 War of Independence, what was it that transformed him into a proponent of "Hindutva"? A former president of the All-India Hindu Mahasabha, Savarkar was a severe critic of the Congress's appeasement politics.
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Very good book - Must read
- De Anirudha Kulkarni en 04-03-23
De: Vikram Sampath
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The Human Factor
- Gorbachev, Reagan, and Thatcher, and the End of the Cold War
- De: Archie Brown
- Narrado por: James Langton
- Duración: 21 h y 5 m
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To understand the significance of the parts played by Mikhail Gorbachev, Ronald Reagan, and Margaret Thatcher in East-West relations in the second half of the 1980s, Brown addresses several specific questions: What were the values and assumptions of these leaders, and how did their perceptions evolve? What were the major influences on them? To what extent were they reflecting the views of their own political establishment or challenging them? How important for ending the East-West standoff were their interrelations?
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Compelling story of important events
- De Edward C. en 07-13-20
De: Archie Brown
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The Museum of Whales You Will Never See
- And Other Excursions to Iceland's Most Unusual Museums
- De: A. Kendra Greene
- Narrado por: A. Kendra Greene
- Duración: 7 h y 50 m
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Iceland is home to only 330,000 people but more than 265 museums and public collections, ranging from the intensely physical, like the Icelandic Phallological Museum, which collects the penises of every mammal known to exist in Iceland, to the vaporously metaphysical, like the Museum of Icelandic Sorcery and Witchcraft, which poses a particularly Icelandic problem: how to display what can't be seen?
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Beautiful Performance
- De Natalie Bossler en 06-08-20
De: A. Kendra Greene
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Vigilance
- The Life of William Still, Father of the Underground Railroad
- De: Andrew K. Diemer
- Narrado por: Cary Hite
- Duración: 12 h y 20 m
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Born free in 1821 to two parents who had been enslaved, William Still was drawn to anti-slavery work from a young age. Hired as a clerk at the Anti-Slavery office in Philadelphia after teaching himself to read and write, he began directly assisting enslaved people who were crossing over from the South into freedom. Andrew Diemer captures the full range and accomplishments of Still’s life, from his resistance to Fugitive Slave Laws and his relationship with John Brown before the war, to his long career fighting for citizenship rights and desegregation until the early 20th century.
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Important history of a brave man
- De Kathleen Dalton en 11-07-23
De: Andrew K. Diemer
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The Plateau
- De: Maggie Paxson
- Narrado por: Maggie Paxson
- Duración: 14 h y 20 m
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In a remote pocket of Nazi-held France, ordinary people risked their lives to rescue many hundreds of strangers, mostly Jewish children. Was this a fluke of history, or something more? Anthropologist Maggie Paxson, certainties shaken by years of studying strife, arrives on the Plateau to explore this phenomenon: What are the traits that make a group choose selflessness?
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Remarkable. Masterpiece.
- De JWu en 09-02-19
De: Maggie Paxson
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Koh-i-Noor
- The History of the World's Most Infamous Diamond
- De: Anita Anand, William Dalrymple
- Narrado por: Leighton Pugh
- Duración: 6 h y 29 m
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On 29 March 1849, the 10-year-old Maharajah of the Punjab was ushered into the magnificent Mirrored Hall at the centre of the great Fort in Lahore. There, in a public ceremony, the frightened but dignified child handed over to the British East India Company in a formal act of submission not only swathes of the richest land in India but also arguably the single most valuable object in the subcontinent: the celebrated Koh-i-Noor diamond. The Mountain of Light.
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Fascinating
- De Jean en 07-08-17
De: Anita Anand, y otros
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The Fatal Alliance
- A Century of War on Film
- De: David Thomson
- Narrado por: David Thomson
- Duración: 19 h y 52 m
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In The Fatal Alliance the acclaimed film critic David Thomson offers us one of his most provocative books yet—a rich, arresting, and troubling study of that most beloved genre: the war movie. It is not a standard history or survey of war films, although Thomson turns his typically piercing eye to many favorites—from All Quiet on the Western Front to The Bridge on the River Kwai to Saving Private Ryan.
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I enjoy David Thomson's books
- De Boxing Fan en 08-05-24
De: David Thomson
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Gandhi Before India
- De: Ramachandra Guha
- Narrado por: Derek Perkins
- Duración: 23 h y 28 m
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Ramachandra Guha takes us from Gandhi's birth in 1869 through his upbringing in Gujarat, his two years as a student in London, and his two decades as a lawyer and community organizer in South Africa. Guha has uncovered myriad previously untapped documents, including private papers of Gandhi's contemporaries. Using this wealth of material in an exuberant, brilliantly nuanced and detailed narrative, Guha describes the social, political, and personal worlds inside of which Gandhi began the journey that would earn him the honorific Mahatma: "Great Soul".
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Somewhat repetitive and lacking
- De freehope en 03-10-21
De: Ramachandra Guha
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His Masterly Pen
- A Biography of Jefferson the Writer
- De: Fred Kaplan
- Narrado por: Mark Bramhall
- Duración: 24 h y 4 m
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As he did for Abraham Lincoln and John Quincy Adams, award-winning biographer Fred Kaplan offers a fresh, illuminating look at the life of Thomas Jefferson and his contributions as a writer.
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Jefferson Condemned by his own Masterly Pen
- De SVAtlanta en 02-15-23
De: Fred Kaplan
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On Argentina
- De: Jorge Luis Borges, Suzanne Jill Levine - editor, Alfred Mac Adam - editor introduction
- Narrado por: Diego Diment
- Duración: 5 h y 26 m
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Jorge Luis Borges wrote about Argentina as only someone passionate about his homeland can. On Argentina reveals the many facets of his passion in essays, poems, and stories through which he sought to bring Argentina forward on the world stage, and to do for Buenos Aires what James Joyce did for Dublin.
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On Argentina
- De Fred Kiesche en 07-22-23
De: Jorge Luis Borges, y otros
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Virology
- Essays for the Living, the Dead, and the Small Things in Between
- De: Joseph Osmundson
- Narrado por: Joseph Osmundson
- Duración: 13 h y 7 m
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Invisible in the food we eat, the people we kiss, and inside our own bodies, viruses flourish - with the power to shape not only our health, but our social, political, and economic systems. Drawing on his expertise in microbiology, Joseph Osmundson brings listeners under the microscope to understand the structure and mechanics of viruses and to examine how viruses like HIV and COVID-19 have redefined daily life. Virology is a critical warning, a necessary reflection, and a call for a better future.
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Audience confusion
- De Tom en 07-31-22
De: Joseph Osmundson
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Task Force Hogan
- The World War II Tank Battalion That Spearheaded the Liberation of Europe
- De: William R. Hogan
- Narrado por: Kaleo Griffith
- Duración: 11 h y 28 m
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A fourth-generation soldier tells the story of his father’s tank battalion, the “Spearhead,” that selflessly led the charge on the front lines from Normandy into Germany—against impossible odds, technologically superior weaponry, and a fanatical enemy on its home turf—and the heroes whose sacrifice won World War II.
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Very realistic
- De Rock Bottom en 11-14-23
De: William R. Hogan
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The Soviet Sixties
- De: Robert Hornsby
- Narrado por: Peter Noble
- Duración: 20 h y 29 m
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Beginning with the death of Stalin in 1953, the "sixties" era in the Soviet Union was just as vibrant and transformative as in the West. The ideological romanticism of the revolutionary years was revived, with renewed emphasis on egalitarianism, equality, and the building of a communist utopia. Mass terror was reined in, great victories were won in the space race, Stalinist cultural dogmas were challenged, and young people danced to jazz and rock and roll. Robert Hornsby examines this remarkable and surprising period.
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Comprehensive and Emtertaining
- De Peter en 02-26-24
De: Robert Hornsby
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- Jack Ruskin
- 03-11-23
Excellent, but would have benefited from more context
While the Epilogue was useful, it would have benefited from more context in a prologue. There were many British and others who fell in love with India and not only benefitted it, but supported it’s need for independence. I would have liked to hear about that as a background.
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- oliverVT
- 07-24-22
Unparalleled History of India
An in depth discussion of seven foreigners who had overly large influence on the independence of India. Seven foreigners who considered themselves Indian patriots even when faced with prison by their own native countries.
Their individual stories and the interrelationship among them paints a fascinating history of India during that country's coming of age in the modern world.
The narrator's careful reading and enunciation of difficult place names allows the listener to easily follow the narrative.
The biographies of the principal individuals is neither haigographic nor commonplace; rather, it is plain history that informs as well as creating wonderment.
Highly recommended!
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