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'Captain Elder Brother' and the Whirlwind Army
Sainath, P.
Article
2016
At 94, a forgotten hero of India’s struggle for freedom returns to the scene of his most daring exploit in the anti-British Raj uprising that saw a parallel government established in Satara, Maharasht...
Gandhi: A Biography
Ashe, Geoffrey
Book
1968
Gandhiji: A Study 1960
Mukerjee, Hirendranath
Book
1960
Godavari: and the police still await an attack
Sainath, P.
Article
2015
Rural Indians were both the foot soldiers of freedom and the leaders of some of the greatest anti-colonial uprisings ever seen. Countless thousands of them sacrificed their lives to rid India of Briti...
India's Struggle for Freedom
Mukerjee, Hirendranath
Book
1962
Kalliasseri: In search of Sumukan
Sainath, P.
Article
2015
The village that battled on all fronts, fighting the British, local landlords, and caste.
Kalliasseri: Still fighting at 50
Sainath, P.
Article
2015
When the God of the Hunters sheltered the communists in Kerala from the Raj.
The last battle of Laxmi Panda
Sainath, P.
Article
2015
Rural Indians were both the foot soldiers of freedom and the leaders of some of the greatest anti-colonial uprisings ever seen. Countless thousands of them sacrificed their lives to rid India of Briti...
The Life of Mahatma Gandhi
Fischer, Louis
Book
1950
A biography.
The Mahatma and the Ism
Namboodiripad, E.M.S.
Book
1958
Marx at the Margins: On Nationalism, Ethnicity, and Non-Western Societies
Anderson, Kevin B.
Book
2010
Marx’s critique of capital was far broader than is usually supposed. To be sure, he concentrated on the labor-capital relation within Western Europe and North America. But at the same time, he expen...
A Marxist History of the World part 56: The Indian Mutiny
Faulkner, Neil
Article
2012
The Indian Mutiny was the subcontinent’s first war of independence, with Indians of different ethnic and religious backgrounds fighting side-by-side despite the divide and rule fostered by the British...
Modern India: 1885-1947
Sarkar, Sumit
Book
1983
This book uses recently released data to focus on India's anti-imperialist struggle within the larger context of its economic, socio-cultural and political developments in that era.
Nine decades of non-violence
Sainath, P.
Article
2015
Rural Indians were both the foot soldiers of freedom and the leaders of some of the greatest anti-colonial uprisings ever seen. Countless thousands of them sacrificed their lives to rid India of Briti...
Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - August 21, 2015: Canadian federal election, mining and the environment
Diemer, Ulli (editor); Rickwood, Darien Yawching (production)
Serial Publication (Periodical)
2015
Featuring the Canadian federal election, mining and the environment, failure of Syriza in Greece, refugees, veterans of India's struggle for independence.
Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - December 17, 2017: Collective Memory and Cultural Amnesia
Diemer, Ulli
Serial Publication (Periodical)
2017
Our society is obsessed with the short-term present. It devalues memory and the past. But there are those who do remember, and who work to preserve and share our collective memory. But they have to co...
Panimara's foot soldiers of freedom - 2
Sainath, P.
Article
2015
Rural Indians were both the foot soldiers of freedom and the leaders of some of the greatest anti-colonial uprisings ever seen. Countless thousands of them sacrificed their lives to rid India of Briti...
Panimara's foot soldiers of freedom - 1
Sainath, P.
Article
2015
Rural Indians were both the foot soldiers of freedom and the leaders of some of the greatest anti-colonial uprisings ever seen. Countless thousands of them sacrificed their lives to rid India of Briti...
Postcolonial Theory and the Specter of Capital
Chibber, Vivek
Book
2013
Against the thesis that Western subalterns are made of different stuff, Chibber argues that human beings are, at their core, not that different across contexts. The winds of history and culture may ch...
Roy, M.N. - Writings - Index
Roy, M.N.
Article
Writings of M.N. Roy (1887-1954).
Sherpur: big sacrifice, short memory
Sainath, P.
Article
2015
Rural Indians were both the foot soldiers of freedom and the leaders of some of the greatest anti-colonial uprisings ever seen. Countless thousands of them sacrificed their lives to rid India of Briti...
Socialist Register 1991: Volume 27: Communist Regimes the Aftermath
Miliband, Ralph; Panitch, Leo (eds.)
Serial Publication (Periodical)
1991
Sonakhan: When Veer Narayan died twice
Sainath, P.
Article
2015
In Chhattisgarh, Veer Narayan Singh sought no charity, but gave his life fighting for justice
When 'Salihan' took on the Raj
Sainath, P.
Article
2015
Rural Indians were both the foot soldiers of freedom and the leaders of some of the greatest anti-colonial uprisings ever seen. Countless thousands of them sacrificed their lives to rid India of Briti...