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Podcast: New Books in South Asian Studies
Episode: Ramachandra Guha, "Rebels Against the Raj: Western Fighters for India's Freedom" (Knopf, 2022)
Description: Rebels Against the Raj: Western Fighters for India’s Freedom (Knopf, 2022) by Ramachandra Guha tells the extraordinary but little-known story of seven individuals, foreigners to India, who chose to struggle for a country other than their own. These rebels and renegades arrived in colonial India through the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and joined the fight for Indian independence.Of the seven, four were British, two were American, and one was an Irishwoman. Four were men and three were women. Before and after being jailed or deported they did remarkable and pioneering work in a variety of...