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A handcuffed Bhagat Singh being interrogated in Lahore after his ﬁrst arrest, in 1927. The photograph was apparently taken secretly by the police and was discovered in secret police records after 1947.

Bhagat Singh: A radical legacy

Excerpts from an assessment of the contribution of Bhagat Singh and his associates to the national movement, on the occasion of the revolutionary’s bi

Battle for minds

The essays in the book analyse and reflect on the incomplete efforts to arrive at an alternative modernity in India.

Chandrasekhar Azad he commanded the Hindustan Socialist Republican ARMY.-

A radical legacy

Bhagat Singh and associates radicalised the national movement by broadening its scope and creating space for popular interventions.

A story of 1857

In many ways the book is a diary of what different people in Delhi were feeling and expressing during the eventful months of the uprising.

A saffron assault abroad

The Hindu Right's attempts to rewrite school textbooks on India and Hinduism in California meet with stiff resistance from renowned historians and sch

Indian communism during the Raj

History of the Communist Movement in India, Volume I: The Formative Years, 1920-1933; CPI(M) Publications in association with LeftWord Books, 2005; pa

Of freedom and revolution

Memoirs: 25 Communist Freedom Fighters; People's Democracy Publications, New Delhi, 2005; pages 194, Rs.125.

Unequal citizens

In a Minority: Essays on Muslim Women in India, edited by Zoya Hasan and Ritu Menon; Oxford University Press, 2005; pages 396, Rs.645

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