Syama Prasad Mukherjee / Manoj Kumar.
By: Manoj Kumar.
Series: Great nationalist of India. Language: eng.Publisher: New Delhi : Shri Sai Printographers, 2019Description: viii, 272 p. ; 22 cm.ISBN: 9789386365163.Subject(s): Mookerjee, Shyama Prasad -- Biography, 1901-1953
| Politician -- India | Mookerjee, Syama Prasad -- Political activityDDC classification: 923.254N01M Summary: Dr Mukherjee helped to oust the League ministry in Bengal (1941) and install the Progressive Coalition ministry of which he was the Finance Minister. He resigned in 1942 to protest against the Governor's policy of repression against the Quit India Movement. As the Working President of the Hindu Mahasabha, he was responsible for its ascendency in Indian politics from 1940 to 1944. Syama Prasad was the founder of the Bharatiya Jana Sangh, the predecessor of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). He is undoubtedly one of the most iconic and controversial leaders in India's recent hisory. In spite of his significant political and ideological differences with Jawaharlal Nehru, Dr Mukherjee was inducted to the first cabinet of independent India. Syama Prasad was an academician, administrator and educational thinker, as may be discerned from his life-long engagement with education and discourses on education that he delivered on various occassions in the last two decades of his life in particular. The BJS was ideologically close to the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, and derived most of its political activist base and candidates from the RSS ranks. Shyama Prasad Mykherjee was taken under house arrest on May 11, 1953. Keeping him locked inside a decrepit house did not help to better pleurisy and coronary problems which he was already suffering from. This book, which fills in substantial gaps in one's knowledge of this highly momentous and complicated period of modern Indian history, should prove to be a seminal contribution to the burgeoning body of literature on the subject.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Dr Mukherjee helped to oust the League ministry in Bengal (1941) and install the Progressive Coalition ministry of which he was the Finance Minister. He resigned in 1942 to protest against the Governor's policy of repression against the Quit India Movement. As the Working President of the Hindu Mahasabha, he was responsible for its ascendency in Indian politics from 1940 to 1944. Syama Prasad was the founder of the Bharatiya Jana Sangh, the predecessor of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). He is undoubtedly one of the most iconic and controversial leaders in India's recent hisory. In spite of his significant political and ideological differences with Jawaharlal Nehru, Dr Mukherjee was inducted to the first cabinet of independent India. Syama Prasad was an academician, administrator and educational thinker, as may be discerned from his life-long engagement with education and discourses on education that he delivered on various occassions in the last two decades of his life in particular. The BJS was ideologically close to the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, and derived most of its political activist base and candidates from the RSS ranks. Shyama Prasad Mykherjee was taken under house arrest on May 11, 1953. Keeping him locked inside a decrepit house did not help to better pleurisy and coronary problems which he was already suffering from. This book, which fills in substantial gaps in one's knowledge of this highly momentous and complicated period of modern Indian history, should prove to be a seminal contribution to the burgeoning body of literature on the subject.
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