About the Book: Revolutionaries: Fight For Freedom (Abridged edition for
children)
This is an abridged edition of Sanjeev Sanyals Revolutionaries: The Other Story
of How India Won Its Freedom, shortened and illustrated for younger readers.
You may have read the history of Indias freedom struggle from the perspective of
the non-violent movement. Yet, the story of armed resistance to the British
Empire is just as interesting.
Revolutionaries such as Subhas Chandra Bose, Vinayak Savarkar, Aurobindo Ghosh,
Rashbehari Bose, Bhagat Singh, Chandrashekhar Azad and Bhikaji Cama were part of
a large network that sustained armed resistance against the British Empire for
half a century. They not only created a