My Days In Prison - Karagar

Biography & Memoir
Cover of the book My Days In Prison - Karagar by Urmila Shastri, HarperCollins Publishers India
View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart
Author: Urmila Shastri ISBN: 9789350294628
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers India Publication: April 17, 2012
Imprint: HarperVantage Language: English
Author: Urmila Shastri
ISBN: 9789350294628
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers India
Publication: April 17, 2012
Imprint: HarperVantage
Language: English

Mahatma Gandhi called Indians to Civil Disobedience, with his Dandi March and the plea to boycott British goods. Millions of Indians bought and publicly set British goods on fire, exhorting others to follow suit - Urmila Shastri among them. She joined the Satyagraha Movement as a volunteer for the Congress in Meerut. On 17 July 1930, twenty-one-year-old Urmila was arrested on charges of picketing and instigating university students against the government. The case went to trial and the British magistrate offered to acquit her if she apologized in court. Urmila chose to go to jail for six months. Once again, when Mahatma Gandhi announced the Quit India Movement in 1942, Urmila courted arrest. This time, though, she fell seriously ill in jail and was denied proper treatment. She witnessed the inhuman atrocities that the jail authorities heaped on freedom fighters and other prisoners. With no other outlet for her angst, she wrote about her days there. She died at thirty-three, with a smile on her face and Gandhi's dream in her heart. Disturbing yet inspiring, this bilingual edition of Urmila Shastri's prison diary is an intimate chronicle of an epoch-making era.

View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart

Mahatma Gandhi called Indians to Civil Disobedience, with his Dandi March and the plea to boycott British goods. Millions of Indians bought and publicly set British goods on fire, exhorting others to follow suit - Urmila Shastri among them. She joined the Satyagraha Movement as a volunteer for the Congress in Meerut. On 17 July 1930, twenty-one-year-old Urmila was arrested on charges of picketing and instigating university students against the government. The case went to trial and the British magistrate offered to acquit her if she apologized in court. Urmila chose to go to jail for six months. Once again, when Mahatma Gandhi announced the Quit India Movement in 1942, Urmila courted arrest. This time, though, she fell seriously ill in jail and was denied proper treatment. She witnessed the inhuman atrocities that the jail authorities heaped on freedom fighters and other prisoners. With no other outlet for her angst, she wrote about her days there. She died at thirty-three, with a smile on her face and Gandhi's dream in her heart. Disturbing yet inspiring, this bilingual edition of Urmila Shastri's prison diary is an intimate chronicle of an epoch-making era.

More books from HarperCollins Publishers India

Cover of the book No Country for the Poor by Urmila Shastri
Cover of the book Aries Tarot Forecasts 2018 by Urmila Shastri
Cover of the book Mid-career Crisis: Why Some Sail through while Others Don't by Urmila Shastri
Cover of the book Tarot Predictions 2016: Capricorn by Urmila Shastri
Cover of the book Bejan Daruwalla 2014 Horoscope - Mesha by Urmila Shastri
Cover of the book Jo Lade Deen Ke Het: Vimal Ka Visphotak Sansar by Urmila Shastri
Cover of the book Eye on Cricket: Reflections on the Great Game by Urmila Shastri
Cover of the book Tarot Predictions 2016: Aries by Urmila Shastri
Cover of the book The Forest of Enchantments by Urmila Shastri
Cover of the book Making Sense of Modi's India by Urmila Shastri
Cover of the book Culture: 50 Insights from Mythology by Urmila Shastri
Cover of the book Before You Give Up on You by Urmila Shastri
Cover of the book Feluda @ 50 by Urmila Shastri
Cover of the book Scene: 75 by Urmila Shastri
Cover of the book Aapki Sampurn Bhavishyavani 2018: Meen by Urmila Shastri
We use our own "cookies" and third party cookies to improve services and to see statistical information. By using this website, you agree to our Privacy Policy