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Rebels Against the Raj: Western Fighters for India’s Freedom

Next in the queue

57

/100

I Index Overall Rating

Readers

62/100

Critics

53/100

Scholars

N/A

Author:

Ramachandra Guha

Publisher:

Knopf

Date:

February 22, 2022

A group biography of seven remarkable men and women who arrived in India during the late 19th and early 20th centuries in order to join the freedom movement and struggle for a country and people other than their own.

What The Reviewers Say

Samir Puri,
New York Times Book Review
Insightful.
Tunku Varadarajan,
Wall Street Journal
[An] admirable book.
Victor Mallet,
Financial Times (UK)
In an age of bigotry and narrow nationalisms, Ramachandra Guha’s new book is a welcome reminder that people’s opinions, passions and life’s work do not have to be dictated by their ethnic identities or their countries of birth.
David Arnold,
Times Literary Supplement (UK)
Gandhi forms the connecting link between these diverse personal narratives.