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Bravehearts of Bharat
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Penguin
| Author:
Vikram Sampath
| Language:
English
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Hardback
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Vikram Sampath
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History
has always been the handmaiden of the victor. ‘Until the lions have their own
storytellers,’ said Chinua Achebe, ‘the history of the hunt will always
glorify the hunter!’ Exploring the lives, times and works of the fifteen
long-forgotten and mostly neglected unsung heroes and heroines of our past,
this book brings to light the contribution of the warriors who not only
donned armour and burst forth into the battlefield but also kept the flame of
hope alive under adverse circumstances.
Narrating the tales of valour and success that India, as a nation and
civilization, has borne witness to in its long and tumultuous past, the book
opens a window to the stories of select men and women who valiantly fought
against invaders for their rights, faith and freedom.
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History
has always been the handmaiden of the victor. ‘Until the lions have their own
storytellers,’ said Chinua Achebe, ‘the history of the hunt will always
glorify the hunter!’ Exploring the lives, times and works of the fifteen
long-forgotten and mostly neglected unsung heroes and heroines of our past,
this book brings to light the contribution of the warriors who not only
donned armour and burst forth into the battlefield but also kept the flame of
hope alive under adverse circumstances.
Narrating the tales of valour and success that India, as a nation and
civilization, has borne witness to in its long and tumultuous past, the book
opens a window to the stories of select men and women who valiantly fought
against invaders for their rights, faith and freedom.
About Author
Bangalore-based
historian Vikram Sampath is the author of seven acclaimed books, including
Splendours of Royal Mysore: The Untold Story of the Wodeyars; My Name Is
Gauhar Jaan: The Life and Times of a Musician; Voice of the Veena: S
Balachander: A Biography; Women of the Records and Indian Classical Music and
the Gramophone: 1900-1930. His latest books, published by Penguin Random
House India, are the two-volume biography Savarkar: Echoes from a Forgotten
Past and Savarkar: A Contested Legacy, 1924-1966. Both the volumes have gone
on to become national best sellers.
In 2021, Vikram was elected as fellow to the prestigious Royal Historical
Society of the United Kingdom. He was awarded the Sahitya Akademi's first
Yuva Puraskar in English literature and the ARSC International Award for
excellence in historical research in New York for his book on Gauhar Jaan.
The book has also been adapted to theatre as a play Gauhar by Lillette Dubey
and is being adapted to a Bollywood film by Ashutosh Gowariker. Vikram was
among the four writers and artists to be selected as a writer-in-residence at
the Rashtrapati Bhawan in 2015. Vikram has a doctorate in history and music
from the University of Queensland, Australia, and was a Senior Research
Fellow at the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, New Delhi. He is also an
Aspen Global Leadership Fellow and an Eisenhower Global Fellow 2021. An
engineer/mathematician from BITS-Pilani and with an MBA degree in finance
from S. P. Jain, Mumbai, Vikram is also a trained Carnatic vocalist. He has
established the Archive of Indian Music, India's first digital sound archive
for vintage recordings. He is the founder-director of the Bangalore
Literature Festival and curates the ZEE Group's ARTH-A Culture Fest.
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