• ISBN13: 9789380607184
• Binding: Hardcover
• Subject: History
• Publisher: Ratna Sagar
• Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook
• Publication Date: March 15, 2012
• Pages: 114
• Original Price: INR 595.0
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 800 grams

This volume explores Bal Gangadhar Tilak’s engagements with not just the Indian national movement, but also with nuanced diversities associated with a context that preceded these mass movements. Based on a variety of sources, the essays herein attempt to historicize a nationalist icon, presenting, in the process, a holistic picture of a leading nationalist personality, including his contradictions and ambiguities, making both Tilak and his contexts accessible. It will be of use to those interested in the Indian national movement and the manner in which it intersected with a range of cultural, and political issues.

Biswamoy Pati was Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Delhi. Among his many publications on diverse aspects of colonial/postcolonial Indian history, are two collections published by Primus Books: The Social History of Health and Medicine in Colonial India (coedited with Mark Harrison, 2011) and India's Princely States: People, Princes and Colonialism (coedited with Waltraud Ernst, 2010). His recent publications also include two edited volumes Adivasis in Colonial India (2011) and The Great Rebellion of 1857 in India (2010).