A collection of historical incidents related to the life of Chandra Shekhar Azad, 1906-1931, Indian freedom fighter.

Set in British India of the 1920s, Waiting for Swaraj follows the cadence and tempo of the lives of the intrepid revolutionaries of the Hindustan Republican Association and the Hindustan Republican Socialist Association who challenged the British Raj. It seeks to comprehend the revolutionaries' self-conception - what did it mean to be a revolutionary? How did a revolutionary live out the vision of revolution, what was their everyday like, did life in revolution transform an individual, what was their truth and how was it different from that of the others? The book locates the essence of being a revolutionary not just in the spectacular moments when the revolutionaries threw a bomb or carried out a political assassination, but in the everyday conversations, banter, anecdotes, and in the stray fragments of the life in underground. It demonstrates how 'waiting' was the crucible that forged a revolutionary.

Chandrashekhar Azad; the great revolutionar y of India; was born on 23rd July ; 1906 in Bhawra village of Alirajpur ; a princely state in Madhya Pradesh. His father’s name was Shri Sitaram Tiwari and mother’s name was Smt. Jagrani Devi. Three sons were born to them before Azad’s birth; but only one son named Sukhdev sur vived. Azad’s parents were very happy with the child’s arrival but were worried because he was very frail at the time of his birth.

Chandra Shekhar was only a little boy when he ran away to Bombay in search of adventure. Little did he know how much he would get involved in the country's freedom struggle. Those were the days when the non-cooperation movement had gathered immense momentum and it was in Varanasi that Chandra Shekhar first confronted British authority. After that there was no looking bISBN:. Assuming the surname 'Azad' he and his band of revolutionaries did much to awaken in the Indian people the desire for freedom. Martyred at the age of 25, Chandra Shekhar Azad has left an indelible mark on the history of Indian Independence.

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