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Prison Days

Prison Days


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?The author of this absorbing book was, where India is concerned, truly present at the Creation...I urge her book on everyone who lived in those great years and on all those who want to know more about them.? -John Kenneth Galbraith

When Mahatma Gandhi gave the call for the nation to join in the freedom struggle, Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit threw herself wholeheartedly into the Movement, along with her father, Motilal Nehru, brother Jawaharlal and husband, Ranjit Sitaram Pandit. Prison Days is an account of her third and final term in Naini Central Jail in Allahabad. She was arrested on 12 August 1942. World War II was on, the country was under military rule and arrest and imprisonment took place without trial. Several lorries filled with armed policemen arrived that night at Anand Bhawan to arrest one lone, unarmed woman.

Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit was soon joined in jail by her 25-year-old niece, Indira Gandhi. In this diary, Pandit recounts her experiences in jail and the hardships she endured along with others who had joined the fight for freedom: rations mixed with dirt and stones, a lack of water and sanitary facilities, surviving on an allowance of 9 annas a day and only the hard ground to sleep on.

Though it is more the personal, day-to-day details of her life that fill Pandit?s jail diary, it is the politics of the day-the overarching desire to throw off the shackles of British rule and Mahatma Gandhi?s unique approach of non-violence and non-cooperation to achieve this, that define the book. It is this that gives Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit and her fellow prisoners the courage to carry on the fight with unbroken spirits-and at the stroke of the midnight hour on 15 August 1947, victory was theirs. India was reborn as an independent nation.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9789387164802
  • Publisher: Speaking Tiger Publishing Private Limited
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Language: English
  • Weight: 294.8350405 gr
  • ISBN-10: 9387164802
  • Publisher Date: 10-Feb-18
  • Height: 39.99992 mm
  • No of Pages: 136
  • Width: 139.99972 mm

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