Savarkar: A Contested Legacy from A Forgotten Past
Penguin
978-0-670-09666-4 (ISBN)
Decades after his death, Savarkar continues to uniquely influence India's political scenario. An optimistic advocate of Hindu-Muslim unity in his treatise on the 1857 War of Independence, what was it that transformed him into a proponent of 'Hindutva'? What was it that transformed him in the Cellular Jail to a proponent of 'Hindutva', which viewed Muslims with suspicion?
This two-volume biography series, exploring a vast range of original archival documents from across India and outside it, in English and several Indian languages, historian Vikram Sampath brings to light the life and works of Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, one of the most contentious political thinkers and leaders of the twentieth century.
Comprehensive, definitive and absolutely unputdownable, this two-volume biography opens a window to previously unknown untold life of Vinayak Damodar Savarkar.
Vikram Sampath, a Bangalore-based historian, is the author of four acclaimed books: Splendours of Royal Mysore: The Untold Story of The Wodeyars, My Name Is Gauhar Jaan: The Life and Times of a Musician, Voice of the Veena: S. Balachander and Savarkar: Echoes From A Forgotten Past, 1883-1924. He was awarded the Sahitya Akademi's first Yuva Puraskar in English literature and the ARSC International Award for excellence in historical research in New York for his book on Gauhar Jaan. The book has also been adapted as a play, 'Gauhar', by Lillete Dubey and is being adapted into a Hindi movie by Ashutosh Gowariker. Vikram has a doctorate in history and music from the University of Queensland, Australia, and was a former senior fellow at the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, New Delhi. An engineer/mathematician from BITS-Pilani and an MBA in finance from S.P. Jain Institute of Management, Mumbai, he is also a trained Carnatic vocalist. He has established the Archive of Indian Music, India's first digital sound archive for vintage recordings, and is the founder-director of the Bangalore Literature Festival, Indic Thoughts Festival and ZEE Group's ARTH: A Culture Fest.
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 14.2.2022 |
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Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 156 x 240 mm |
Themenwelt | Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte |
Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik | |
ISBN-10 | 0-670-09666-0 / 0670096660 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-670-09666-4 / 9780670096664 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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