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The book Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel: Chanakya of Modern India highlights the indispensably wise, critical, mature, decisive, responsible, and steering leadership role played by Sardar Patel. The book covers the pre-independence and the post-independence scenario taking Sardar Patel at the central role and takes stock of the crucial period between 1945 and 1950 and the critical decisions taken at that time on which the future of India was to be built. It also covers ...
Gandhiji gave a call to decide between life of personal comfort and the life dedicated to the service of the country. In 1917, Sardar Patel gave up his lucrative practice and westernised life style to serve the country with Gandhiji as his Guru. Gandhiji became his master and he his disciple. He was also the last of the leaders to see Gandhiji on the ill fated day of 30th January 1948. Under his master, Sardar fought along with several leaders for our freedom and ...
Gandhi-Jinnah Talks is not only a book on an important phase of our contemporary history, but it reveals the facts of that period effectively. With utmost ease the author explores the psyche of two great personalities, who shaped the destinies of this sub-continent. It helps us to understand divergent opinions that surfaced in the talks and circumstances that led to partition. It captures vividly the historical moments in an intimate manner without loosing sight ...
If the stature of men and women is to be measured by the fact that their ideas progress with increasing validity and momentum as time passes farther and farther beyond their own life, Mahatma Gandhi—the Man of the Millennium stands in lonely eminence. The ideas and actions which Gandhiji placed before the world are being acknowledged as capable of finding solutions to some of the most pressing issues faced by humankind-as we move towards a new millennium in ...
The purpose of writing this book is to explore, once again, answers to questions that have haunted our mind for years; like; Who divided India? Was Jinnah alone responsible for partition? Whether the Congress Party and its leaders like Gandhiji and Jawaharlal Nehru too were responsible in some measure? Finally, as the name of the book suggests, it is an attempt by the author to unravel the enigma called Jinnah. To a discerning reader, the book serves as a window ...