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The
Indian Struggle, 1920-1942, is Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose's major
political study of the movement for independence in which he himself
was a leading participant. The book gives a lucid, analytical narrative
of the freedom struggle from the time of the non-co-operation and
Khilafat movements to the Quit India and the Azad Hind movements.
Netaji's reflections of the key themes in Indian history and a finely
etched assessment of Mahatma Gandhi's role in it, enrich the story
of the political upheavals of the inter-war period.
'How
many selfless sons of the Mother are prepared, in this selfish age,'
the fifteen-year old Subhas asked his mother in 1912, 'to completely
give up their personal interests and take the plunge for the Mother?
Mother, is this son of yours yet ready?' as he stood on the verge
of taking the plunge by resigning from the Indian Civil Service, he
wrote to his elder brother Sarat on April 6, 1921: ' I know what this
sacrifice means. It means poverty, suffering, hard work and possibly
other hardships to which I need not expressly refer but
Distilled
out of a twelve-volume set of his Collected Works, his Essential Writings
is designed to provide a single-volume introduction to the thought
of India's foremost militant nationalist. They were the products of
a philosophical mind applied to careful analyses of specific historical
situations and informed by direct and continuous revolutionary experience
in different parts of the world of a kind unknown to any other leader
of contemporary India.
In
February 1933, a seriously ill and emaciated prisoner was carried
out of an ambulance on a stretcher and out onto a ship setting sail
from Bombay to Europe. When the same man boarded a KLM flight in Calcutta
for Europe in November 1937, he was president-elect of the Congress.
This volume brings together the letters, writings and speeches from
a fascinating period
Perhaps
the least known aspect of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose's many-sided
personality was his love for Emilie Schenkl, his Austrian wife. Bose
met Emilie Schenkl in June 1934 in Vienna, developed a close relationship
during his forced European exile, secretly married her in December
1937, and had a daughter, Anita, in November 1942. This special volume
of the Collected Works illuminates the human and emotional aspects
of Netaji's many-splendoured life.