Satyamurti Letters : Vol: I: The Indian Freedom Struggle Through the Eyes of a Parliamentarian

Published by Dorling for Pearson Longman, Delhi, 2008

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Contents Message from the Satyamurti family. List of abbreviations. Preface. Acknowledgements. Introduction. 1. 1908 1918 Debut in politics. 2. 1919 The Immediate Post first World War Period. 3. 1919 1923 The Montagu Chelmsford reforms the Swaraj Party Is born. 4. 1923 The Swaraj Party and council entry. 5. 1924 1926 The Swaraj Party in the Madras legislative council. 6. 1927 1934 The Simon Commission and the second civil disobedience movement. 7. 1935 The Tamil Nadu Congress Committee affairs and the impact of the Government of India Act 1935. 8. 1936 the preparation for the provincial assembly elections of 1937. 9. 1937 The election victory the Office acceptance controversy and the making of the provincial ministry. Index. The Satyamurti Letters collected in two volumes spans Satyamurti's career as a state MLA in Madras and later in the Delhi Central Assembly where he rose to the position of Deputy Leader of the Congress Party. The letters collected in The Satyamurti Letters Volume I from a trajectory of the evolution of the Home Rule Movement. Satyamurti's passion for politics in evident in his correspondence with luminaries like Vijayaraghavachariar Edwin Montagu Mahatma Gandhi Motilal Nehru Sarojini Naidu Annie Besant C.R. Das Rajagopalachari and many other contemporaries. Right from Satyamurti's debut in politics this volume travels through time and gives us glimpses of the work of the Swaraj Party in the Madras legislative council the turbulent years (ranging from 1927 to 1934) of the Simon Commission's labours Mahatma Gandhi's Civil disobedience movement the Gandhi Irwin Pact and round table conference on India's political future Satyamurti's trials and tribulations as President of the Tamil Nadu Congress Committee and finally the Congress Party's victory in the new provincial elections with Satyamurti opting out offering his chosen constituency to his senior C. Rajagopalachari. This invaluable collection of letters telegrams and documents throws considerable light on the styles and strategies of the most famous political figures of the period. It can be best described as a collection of historical snapshots and will be a treasure for historians history students and all lovers of this particular time in India's history. 406 pp.…

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Title
Satyamurti Letters : Vol: I: The Indian Freedom Struggle Through the Eyes of a Parliamentarian
Author
K V Ramanathan
Publisher
Dorling for Pearson Longman, Delhi
Publication year
2008
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Hardbound
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