Sanjeev Sanyal is a bestselling writer, an environmentalist and an internationally recognized economist. Currently, he is the principal economic adviser to the Government of India. Prior to joining the government, he spent two decades in international financial markets and was the global strategist and managing director of one of the worlds largest banks. He was named the µYoung Global Leader 2010 by the World Economic Forum. He is the author of The Indian Renaissance: Indias Rise after a Thousand Years of Decline, Land of the Seven Rivers: A Brief History of Indias Geography, The Incredible History of Indias Geography Life over Two Beers and The Ocean of Churn. His columns and articles have appeared in many of the worlds leading publications. In 2014, he was given the inaugural International Indian Achievers Award for his contributions to literature. He has written extensively on environmental and urban issues. In 2007, he was awarded the Eisenhower Fellowship for his work on the economics of cities and, in 2014, the Singapore government honoured him at the World Cities Summit. He has been a senior fellow of the World Wide Fund for Nature (formerly World Wildlife Fund), an adjunct fellow of the Institute of Policy Studies, Singapore, and a visiting scholar at Oxford University
<p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.4285em; color: rgb(98, 98, 98); font-family: roboto, san-serif; font-size: 14px;">The official narrative of Indias freedom struggle has almost entirely been about the non-violent political movement led by Mahatma Gandhi and the Indian National Congress. However, it is Sanjeev Sanyals contention that there was a continuous parallel armed struggle against British colonial rulers that can be traced to the very beginning of colonial occupation. It abated for a while after the First War of Indian Independence in 1857, but re-emerged from the beginning of the twentieth century.</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.4285em; color: rgb(98, 98, 98); font-family: roboto, san-serif; font-size: 14px;">It is not that people are unaware of Rashbehari Bose, Chandrashekhar Azad, Bhagat Singh, Sachindra Nath Sanyal and Subhas Chandra Bose, but the impression one gets from reading historical accounts is that theirs were individual acts of courage that did not have an impact on the larger Independence movement. However, this is not the entire picture, as the revolutionary struggle operated through a conscious network that sustained armed resistance against the British for over half a century. They had welldeveloped institutions, thinkers and wide popular support. Indeed, as Subhas Bose demonstrated, they were capable of defeating popular candidates in the Congresss internal elections.</p><div><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.4285em; color: rgb(98, 98, 98); font-family: roboto, san-serif; font-size: 14px;">In Revolutionaries, Sanyal examines Indias freedom struggle from the revolutionary perspective, how the baton was passed from one generation to the next, and, ultimately, why the British were forced to leave India. The book presents an exciting story that interweaves intrigue, high drama, assassination, global espionage and treachery with the courage and heroism of the revolutionaries.</p></div><div><br></div>
