{"product_id":"the-last-liberal-and-other-essays","title":"The Last Liberal and other Essays","description":"\u003cp\u003eAuthor: Ramachandra Guha\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Permanent Black\u003cbr\u003eYear: 2004\u003cbr\u003eLanguage: English\u003cbr\u003ePages: 282\u003cbr\u003eISBN\/UPC (if available): 8178240734\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e Description\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGuha's heroes and heroines include scientists and activists, scholars and writers, politicians and bureaucrats. Quietly purposeful and publicity-shy figures -such as Chandi Prasad Bhatt (the father of the Chipko movement) and Satish Dhawan (the father of the Indian space programme)- are described, as are those whose career and achievements are more public and prominent-such as Madras's C Rajagopalachari and Nepal's B P Koirala, Karnataka's Shivarama Karanth and New Delhi's Anil Agarwal.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTwo essays look at the spell cast by Jawaharlal Nehru on Indians not normally thought of in association with him, namely Nirad C Chaudhuri and Atal Behari Vajpayee; a related essay looks at ideas of India in books by writers with cosmopolitan rather than chauvinistic perspectives. Intellectually influential Indians, such as the historian-editor Dharma Kumar, the writer-publisher Sujit Mukherjee, and the pedagogue-critic T G Vaidyanathan, are memorably etched in essays on them. Influential foreigners featured here include the Marxist cricket writer C L R James, and the revolutionary authoritarians Joseph Stalin and V Prabhakaran. Other essays explore the craft of biography and autobiography, and the joys of the second-hand bookstore.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRamachandra Guha has been described in the New York Times as perhaps the best among India's non-fiction writers. The Last Liberal and Other Essays-a companion to Guha's An Anthropologist among the Marxists and Other Essays-will consolidate his reputation as a historian and biographer who conveys wide learning in elegant prose.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eContents\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: Nehruvian Indians\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePEOPLE AND PLACES\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e766 Kilometres from Somewhere: Sevagram\u003cbr\u003eA Gandhian in Garhwal: Chandi Prasad Bhatt\u003cbr\u003eThe Wisest Man in India: Aspects of C Rajagopalachari\u003cbr\u003eThe Environmentalist of the Poor: Anil\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The India Club","offers":[{"title":"Ramachandra Guha \/ Permanent Black \/ Hardcover","offer_id":68153681543536,"sku":"12237","price":38.25,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1041\/5203\/9792\/files\/12237.jpg?v=1793912471","url":"https:\/\/marketcalvexa.shop\/products\/the-last-liberal-and-other-essays","provider":"Alderstone House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}