Kranti Veer: The Rising and the Underground (1857-1911)
Book four of Bharat's Forgotten Fighters. Forty-four people between the chapatis of 1857 and the shot at Maniyachi in 1911: the eighty-year-old who crossed the Ganga under fire, the queens and the sniper of Awadh and Bundelkhand, the 1857 that broke out in Raipur, Ranchi and Jorhat, the Namdharis blown from guns, the hill chiefs of Manipur and the Lushai hills, Birsa on Dombari Hill, the brothers of Ganeshkhind Road, the exiles of India House, the boys of Muzaffarpur and Alipore, and the men of 1907 who handed the fight to Ghadar. One lesson per person, told from the documented scene.
Level: intermediate · 51 lessons · 17 hours
Topics: history, freedom-struggle, 1857, revolutionaries, ulgulan, india-house, alipore, anushilan, 1850s, 1860s, 1870s, 1880s, 1890s, 1900s, forgotten-fighters, women-of-bharat