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Faced with many disappointments within the Communist Party to which he had dedicated his life and in the realm of politics beyond, P.C. Joshi turned to a deep and life-long engagement with the history of the Party. It was an engagement that led to the creation of a rich archive on the complex history of the Indian Left. On 1 December 1970, this collection was formally acquired by Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, and Joshi himself was the Director of this ...
Partition has by and large come to mean the vivisection of Punjab as well as the holocaust accompanying it. Bengal suffers from a relative neglect, although of late some studies have focused on the trauma that Bengal underwent during and after 1947. This book portrays the hardships experienced by women in the aftermath of the Bengal Partition and how they were able to emerge as a distinct category of refugee women in due course. Their struggles for shelter, food ...
The present monograph on the distinguished freedom fighter and the pioneering Communist leader Puran Chandra Joshi or P.C. Joshi, as he was popularly known, is as much an analysis of the leader as it is of the making of the Communist movement and the party in the country and the unique dilemmas associated with its growth in India. It brings to light the relentless endeavour of the visionary leader in the thirties and the forties to seek common grounds with the ...