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India’s twentieth century struggle for political freedom was and remains an epic achievement in the human experience. Quite apart from its global influence, this is perhaps as familiar a story as it is remarkable given the legacy of Gandhi, among others of that small generation of founders, whose unique leadership roles are rightly considered to have been transformational in the achievement of freedom in 1947, and in the promulgation on the Constitution of ...
The full impact of Swami Sahajanand Saraswati on the social and political history of twentieth century India is only now beginning to be fully understood and appreciated. A man of enormous intellectual and personal complexity he came from Eastern U.P. while his major political role was played out in the neighbouring state of Bihar in the Bihar Provincial Kisan Sabha and after 1936 on the national stage in all India Kisan Sabha. The Khet Mazdoor tract presented ...
A distinguished historian of India recently described Swami Sahajanand as India’s foremost peasant leader. That Sahajanand’s role in the social and political history of the twentieth century is only now being defined in these terms suggests something of the personal and political complexity of the man and his mission. His role in the politics of the Freedom Movement was played out in Eastern UP where he was born and educated, and from the late 1920s in the ...
