: Ramachandra Guha interview: Hyper-nationalism is contrary to traditions of India’s freedom struggle #IndiaNEWS Last Sunday, four days after Russia had invaded his country, Ukrainian President Volodymyr

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Ramachandra Guha interview: Hyper-nationalism is contrary to traditions of India’s freedom struggle #IndiaNEWS
Last Sunday, four days after Russia had invaded his country, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky urged people around the world to volunteer for an “international brigade� that would help resist the “occupiers and protect global security�. With this call, Zelensky was reaching back eight decades to invoke the idealism that had inspired more than 30,000 people from 50 countries – including India – to join the International Brigade in the fight against General Francisco Franco’s fascists during the Spanish Civil War.The volunteers of the International Brigade in Spain find mention on the first page of historian Ramachandra Guha’s riveting new book, Rebels Against the Raj: Western Fighters for Indian Freedom. “In the modern world, the gold standard of loyalty is loyalty to one’s nation,� Guha writes. “Very occasionally, however, history and and morality permit, and even encourage, individuals to identify with, and devote their energies to fulfilling the aspirations of a country that is not their homeland.�The renegades who are the subject of Guha’s book turned their eyes not to Spain, though, but to India, as it waged a battle against British colonialism. Rebels Against the Raj tells the story of seven British and American people who devoted their lives to the Indian freedom struggle – and, for those who lived to...Read more

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