Subhas Chandra Bose and Middle Class Radicalism by Bidyut Chakrabarti

Subhas Chandra Bose and Middle Class Radicalism by Bidyut Chakrabarti

Subhas Chandra Bose is notorious in Britain - and famous in India - because he led the Indian National Army, which was armed by the Japanese to fight against the British in World War II. As a result, Indian studies of his part in the independence movement have tended to be hagiographic. This book takes a critical look at Bose’s political role before the INA episode, when in the 1920s and 1930s he represented radical and militant nationalism with the young Jawaharlal Nehru. Subhas Chandra Bose was a prominent Bengali political leader. Twice president of the Indian National Congress, on the second occasion he was elected in preference to Gandhi’s own nominee. He successfully challenged Gandhi’s leadership at both the central and regional level. He provided a broad platform for all those who opposed Gandhi and Gandhism. In Bengal he succeeded for a time in securing an alliance between the communists and the Islamic Krishak Praja Party (KPP). In this book the author examines the importance of Bose’s militancy in the nationalist movement, how middle class radicalism developed in Bengal, and why in the end its inherent contradictions doomed it to failure.

Bidyut Chakrabarti is a political sociologist. He gained his doctorate at the London School of Economics, UK. He has taught in the United States and India.

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ISBN 13	9781350186576
ISBN 10	1350186570
Title	Subhas Chandra Bose and Middle Class Radicalism
Author	Bidyut Chakrabarti
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Year published	2021-09-23
Number of pages	256
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