About the Book: Uprising: The Liberation of Dadra and Nagar Haveli
In 1954, in the small town of Silvassa, wind blows through desolate streets.
Doors are bolted for the first time, windows shuttered. The town is silent,
except for the soft, persistent patter of August rain. The only movement is that
of a group of outsiders, gathering stealthily around the barricaded Silvassa
police post, their faces grim. A man raises his hand to signal the others—it is
time..
Uprising chronicles a remarkable, yet overlooked chapter of Indian independence.
A few years after the country was formally independent, ordinary Indian
civilians rose up against the colonial stragglers entrenched in