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The Indian freedom struggle has been covered from 1876 to 1947, not from 1885 when the Indian National Congress was established. Because that year Surendranath Banerjea had laid the foundations of the freedom movement. An unconventional method has been adopted insofar as the text has been built not on a succession of events in their chronological sequence, but from person to person, through profiles of individuals who shaped the freedom struggle, and whom I call ...
This biography of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel is a comprehensive and vivid narration of his unique contribution to Mahatma Gandhi’s struggle for India’s freedom (1920-47). Without his support, Mahatma Gandhi admitted, his satyagrahas wouldn’t have had the same success. It was he who built the party machine through imposition of strict discipline and by giving it a mass base, and as party boss supervised and directed the functioning of the Congress ministries ...