Tahseen H Ali রচিত বই ‘Implacable Foes’। প্রকাশক পাঠক সমাবেশ। বইটিতে আছে ৫৯০ পৃষ্ঠা, হার্ডকভার বাঁধাই, সংস্করণ: 1st Published, 2022।
In the telling of the Indian subcontinent’s anti-colonial struggle in the twentieth-century against the British Empire – the Raj–the role of Gandhi, his non-violent tactic–Satyagrah –the Indian National Congress and their supposed success against the Raj has dominated the narrative; and still informs perceptions in the subcontinent and beyond.
Revolutionaries and insurrections were ridiculed as inconsequential and misguided ventures, respectively.
The history of the British presence, however, was not one of non-violence; and it was the control of the subcontinent and its resources–including the deployment of a vast mercenary army drawn from a displaced, brutalized peasantry–that propelled London to its position as foremost world power at the centre of the global capitalist-system in the 19th and 20th centuries.
Would such an empire seemingly bow to an opponent professing to employ strict non-violence? Or did such an opponent help keep the real enemies of the Raj at bay?
বিশেষ করে বইপ্রেমী পাঠকদের জন্য বইটি কাজে লাগবে। অনলাইনে বইপোকা থেকে পেয়ে যাবেন।
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