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About the Book: Without Fear: The life & trial of Bhagat Singh Bhagat Singh ( 1907- 1931) lived at a time when Indias freedom struggle was beginning to flag and when Mahatma Gandhis non-violent, passively resistant approach to partial liberation was beginning to test the patience of the people. The youth of India was inspired by Bhagat Singhs call to arms and enthus About the Book: Without Fear: The life & trial of Bhagat Singh Bhagat Singh ( 1907- 1931) lived at a time when Indias freedom struggle was beginning to flag and when Mahatma Gandhis non-violent, passively resistant approach to partial liberation was beginning to test the patience of the people. The youth of India was inspired by Bhagat Singhs call to arms and enthused by the defiance and dare-devilry of the army wing of the Hindustan Socialist Republican association to which he and his comrades, Sukhdev and Rajguru, belonged. His call, Inquilab Zindabad! became the war-cry of the fight for freedom. When Bhagat Singh was executed by the British after a sham trial for his involvement in the Lahore Conspiracy Case at the age of twenty-three, he was glorified by the Indians as a martyr-for his youth, his heroism, and his steadfast courage in the face of certain death. It was only many years later-after Independence in 1947? that his jail writings came to light. Today, it is these works that set Bhagat Singh apart from the many revolutionaries who laid down their lives for India. They reveal him as not just a passionate freedom-fighter who believed in the cult of the bomb but a widely-read intellectual inspired by the writings of, among others, Marx, Lenin, Bertrand Russell and Victor Hugo; a revolutionary whose vision did not end with the ouster of the British, but who looked further, towards a secular, socialist India. In this book, Nayar takes a close look at the man behind the martyr: his beliefs, his intellectual leanings, his dreams and his despair. This book explains for the first time why Hans Raj Vohra turned approver and betrayed Bhagat Singh and throws new light on Sukhdev, whose loyalties have been questioned by some historians. But most of all it puts in perspective Bhagat Singhs use of violence, so strongly condemned by Gandhi and many others as being extremist. Erudite and engaging, this book is a fascinating portrait of one of Indias greatest freedo

About the Book: Without Fear: The life & trial of Bhagat Singh Bhagat Singh ( 1907- 1931) lived at a time when Indias freedom struggle was beginning to flag and when Mahatma Gandhis non-violent, passively resistant approach to partial liberation was beginning to test the patience of the people. The youth of India was inspired by Bhagat Singhs call to arms and enthus About the Book: Without Fear: The life & trial of Bhagat Singh Bhagat Singh ( 1907- 1931) lived at a time when Indias freedom struggle was beginning to flag and when Mahatma Gandhis non-violent, passively resistant approach...  Read More