About the Book : Revolutionaries: The Other Story of How India Won Its Freedom
The official narrative of Indias freedom struggle has almost entirely been about
the non-violent political movement led by Mahatma Gandhi and the Indian National
Congress. However, it is Sanjeev Sanyals contention that there was a continuous
parallel armed struggle against British colonial rulers that can be traced to
the very beginning of colonial occupation. It abated for a while after the First
War of Indian Independence in 1857, but re-emerged from the beginning of the
twentieth century.
It is not that people are unaware of Rashbehari Bose, Chandrashekhar Azad,
Bhagat Singh, Sachindra