Of freedom and revolution
This is a review of "Memoirs: 25 Communist Freedom Fighters". The reviewer correctly points out - "Communist biography is among the most neglected fields in the historiography of the freedom struggle. The lives of communists have been ignored not only by the mainstream nationalist historians and the latter day historians of the `subaltern' and `post-colonial' variety, but also studiedly avoided by the major Left historians themselves. There must be some reason why major figures such as Muzaffar Ahmad, Hasrat Mohani and B.T. Ranadive never get written about. It is only the occasional, often amateur, attempts by people associated with them, which appear erratically as small write-ups in the magazines and newspapers of the communist parties, and hardly get noticed beyond the circle of their regular readers".
It's no surprise why a large section of Indians publish hysterical anti-communist posts and comments on the blog sites provided by the likes of Times Of India and Rediff.
I am dying to get hold of this book.
This is a review of "Memoirs: 25 Communist Freedom Fighters". The reviewer correctly points out - "Communist biography is among the most neglected fields in the historiography of the freedom struggle. The lives of communists have been ignored not only by the mainstream nationalist historians and the latter day historians of the `subaltern' and `post-colonial' variety, but also studiedly avoided by the major Left historians themselves. There must be some reason why major figures such as Muzaffar Ahmad, Hasrat Mohani and B.T. Ranadive never get written about. It is only the occasional, often amateur, attempts by people associated with them, which appear erratically as small write-ups in the magazines and newspapers of the communist parties, and hardly get noticed beyond the circle of their regular readers".
It's no surprise why a large section of Indians publish hysterical anti-communist posts and comments on the blog sites provided by the likes of Times Of India and Rediff.
I am dying to get hold of this book.
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