This Book is about the life of Harekrushna Mahtab an eminent freedom fighter of India.

Part of the Towards Freedom series, this volume contains primary sources and archival documents related to the year 1946. The first part systematically covers different aspects of the history of British India beginning with events in the anti-British movements in 1946, including the protests against the trial of the officers and soldiers of the Indian National Army and the famous incident of the Royal Indian Navy Mutiny. Chapter Two covers the various political parties, with special attention to the Communist Part of India and the Hindu Mahasabha. The latter is also the subject of documentation research in a separate chapter entitled "Communalism." Chapters Three and Four are braodly concerned with peasant and the industrial working classes, the economic conditions and economic policies in 1946, caste movements, and linguistic regional movements. At the end of chapter Five there are also two small sections addressing the question of women's status and culture.

Autobiography of a retired judge and Oriya author.

This book publishes - for the most part, for the first time - Gandhi's letters to his youngest son, Devadas from 1914, when father and son were both in South Africa to 1948, when they were both in Delhi, the capital of free India where within hours of the last letter Gandhi was assassinated. Gandhi wrote these letters by day, he wrote them by night, he wrote them from aboard trains, steamers, both right and left hands being pressed into service to rest one when tired out. The letters span three decades during which the writer grew from being a fighter for the rights of Indians in South Africa to being hailed as Father of the Nation by millions in India and - opposed by many as well including the man who felled him by three bullets fired at point blank range on 30 January, 1948. The letters hold his aspirations for his son and for his nation. They bear great love and they also scorch. And we see Devadas, the recipient of the letters, move in them from compliant childhood and youth, to adulthood, questioning and remonstrating with his father and being just the independent son his father wants him to be.