This elegant volume attempts to chronicle, for the first time ever, the visual moments of the movement that changedthe history of India. The culmination of over a hundred years of striving that had claimed thousands of lives, the Indian freedom movement was a struggle marked by remarkable leadership, personal integrity and terrible sacrifice. It was
the first non-violent mass movement that overthrew an empire. With a thought-provoking introduction by Pavan K. Varma, who enumerates the enduring legacies of the freedom movement, this book is replete with photographs, maps, newspaper clippings and letters Sourced from various archives,museums and libraries from India and abroad.