A Glimpse of My Life (Paperback)

Ram Prasad

ISBN 10: 0143467026 / ISBN 13: 9780143467021

Published by Random House, India, Noida, 2025

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Paperback. Ram Prasad 'Bismil' (1897-1927) remains among the best-known revolutionaries of India's struggle for freedom. In this autobiography, Bismil reflects on his life, as well as on the people and ideas that inspired him, and on the revolutionary movement he built. He remembers his childhood, the hardships his parents faced, the role his mother and guru played in shaping him, his invovlement in the Kakori train robbery, his experiences in prison, and his comrades fighting alongside him for freedom from British rule. Bismil not only offers glimpses of his eventful life but also lays out his ideas on gender, caste, class, communalism, justice, nation-building and the attractions and pitfalls of revolutionary activity. The readers of his autobiography will find many of these ideas to be of great relevance in present-day India. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Glimpse of My Life (Paperback)
• Publisher: Random House, India, Noida
• Publication Date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0143467026
• ISBN 13: 9780143467021
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

A Glimpse of My Life Autobiography of the Indian Revolutionary Ram Prasad ‘Bismil’

About the Author

Ram Prasad Bismil (Author)
Ram Prasad 'Bismil' (1897-1927) was a Hindi writer, poet and revolutionary who committed his life to the freedom struggle. He participated in the Kakori train robbery, to amass funds for his revolutionary movement against the British, for which he was arrested and executed. His landmark autobiography was written during his time in jail, just before he was hanged, on 19 December 1927.

Awadhesh Tripathi (Translator)
Awadhesh Tripathi is a translator and literary critic based in Bhopal. He has translated several books into Hindi, including Ganesh Devy’s After Amnesia, Gyanesh Kudasya’s India in the 1950s and Richard Eaton’s India in the Persianate Age. His monograph Kavita Ka Loktantra is a study of post-Independence Hindi poetry and its critique of the newly established Indian democracy. He teaches at Azim Premji University, Bhopal.