Results for "Mukherjee, Rudrangshu"

A generous one-volume selection of the best and most important works—poems, songs, stories, essays, novellas, and novels—by the prolific Bard of Bengal, the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.Rabindranath Tagore published his first volume of poetry as a teenager and went on to b... Read More about The Best of Tagore: Edited and Introduced by Rudrangshu Mukherjee (Everyman's Library Classics Series)

Rudrangshu Mukherjee places the 'soldier-peasant' at the forefront of the Revolt. Violence has rarely been described with so much realism and subtlety. The imaginative use of primary source materials adds clarity to accounts such as the massacre in Satichaura Ghat and the trial of Mangal Pandey. The... Read More about The Year of Blood: Essays on the Revolt of 1857

"With this rich and interesting ensemble of essays, we finally have a handy sourcebook of Gandhi's writings."—The Journal of Asian Studies.... Read More about The Penguin Gandhi Reader

This is a short introduction to the life and ideas of Jawaharlal Nehru, independent India's first prime minister. The approach is biographical. The book traces how Nehru transformed himself from a rich Westernized young man to a radical leader of the Congress. It looks at his relationship with Mahat... Read More about Jawaharlal Nehru (Oxford India Short Introductions)