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Roads to Freedom : Prisoners in Colonial India / Mushirul Hasan.

By: Publisher: New Delhi, India : Oxford University Press, 2016Edition: First editionDescription: x, 276 pages ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780199458837 (hardback)
  • 0199458839 (hardback)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 365.60954 HAS 23
LOC classification:
  • HV9792 .H37 2016
Contents:
Contents Acknowledgements Introduction: ‘The Prisoner’s Paradise’ ‘Sunlight on a Broken Column’ Jail—‘The Gateway to Freedom’ The Karachi Trial Calcutta’s Maulana: Colonialism on Trial Poets in Prisons ‘Long Walk to Freedom’ Sunlight and Shadow in Prison ‘The Vessel Will Sink When the Load of Sin Is Great’ ‘Thy Flag Will Be Laid in the Dust’: The Nehrus in Prison Crafting History in a Cell Conclusion: The Price of Freedom Appendix I: Aseer-e Zindan— Poems from Prison Appendix II: Tables Index About the Author
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction: ‘The Prisoner’s Paradise’
‘Sunlight on a Broken Column’
Jail—‘The Gateway to Freedom’
The Karachi Trial
Calcutta’s Maulana: Colonialism on Trial
Poets in Prisons
‘Long Walk to Freedom’
Sunlight and Shadow in Prison
‘The Vessel Will Sink When the Load of Sin Is Great’
‘Thy Flag Will Be Laid in the Dust’: The Nehrus in Prison
Crafting History in a Cell
Conclusion: The Price of Freedom
Appendix I: Aseer-e Zindan— Poems from Prison
Appendix II: Tables
Index
About the Author