Fifty Year Road: A Personal History of India from the Mid-Sixties Onward (Record no. 359290)
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| 005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION | |
| control field | 20250902165357.0 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| ISBN | 9788119153954 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 954 ROY |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME | |
| Personal name | Roy, Bhaskar |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Fifty Year Road: A Personal History of India from the Mid-Sixties Onward |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication | Mumbai |
| Name of publisher | Jaico Publishing House |
| Year of publication | 2024 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Number of Pages | 297 p. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | An everyman flair makes history most authentic and intensely gripping. Nothing captures more gnawingly the acute scarcity in the wake of two successive wars—with China in 1962 and Pakistan in 1965—than the lengthening lines outside ration shops. Fifty Year Road is Bhaskar Roy’s look-back moment, but more crucially, it’s the less-focused account of India that often gets overlooked by historiographers.<br/><br/>The Naxalbari uprising, in perspective, was the first and fiercest far-left challenge to the Indian state, born out of deep disillusion of the republic’s first generation with the robust dream come crashing. Each of the subsequent upheavals has had untold sides too: the Bangladesh Liberation War, the 1974 rail strike, the Emergency, Indira assassination, Rajiv Gandhi years, economic reforms, Ayodhya demolition, Sonia Gandhi and Manmohan Singh’s stewardship of the UPA, and Narendra Modi’s inexorable ride to power.<br/><br/>Because it’s an ordinary man’s memoir, the narrative gets intertwined with the Indian chronicle. The big and powerful amplify their lives and achievements; a journalist captures the tone and tension of his times. The book pulsates with the author’s emotions and the nation’s pain and possibility as well. |
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| Topical Term | Personal History of India |
| 9 (RLIN) | 13956 |
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| Koha item type | Books |
| Lost status | Home library | Current library | Date acquired | Cost, normal purchase price | Full call number | Accession Number | Koha item type | Public Note |
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| Gandhi Smriti Library | Gandhi Smriti Library | 2025-09-02 | 599.00 | 954 ROY | 179599 | Books | 599.00 |