To Make the Deaf Hear : Ideology and Programme of Bhagat Singh and His Comrades

Contents: Preface. Abbreviations. 1. Programme and ideology of the early revolutionaries. 2. Towards a revolutionary programme and socialist outlook. 3. Trials, congress and the revolutionaries. 4. Ideology and programme of the HSRA. 5. Conclusion. Appendices: A. The reading list of Sardar Bhagat Singh. B. Some important statements and writings of Bhagat Singh: 1. To make the deaf hear: notice of Hindustan Socialist Republican Association (Army). 2. Statement in the Sessions Court (Read out by Mr. Asaf Ali). 3. Why I am an atheist. 4. Introduction to the dreamland. 5. To the young political workers. C. Some important documents: 1. Manifesto of the Hindustan Republican Association. 2. Manifesto of the Naujawan Bharat Sabha. 3. Philosophy of the Bomb: manifesto of the Hindustan Socialist Republican Association. Glossary. Bibliography. Index.

"This is a path-breaking work on the political life and times of Bhagat Singh and his associates and the organizations of which they were a part--the Hindustan Socialist Republican Association (HSRA) and the Naujawan Bharat Sabha. It highlights many hitherto neglected aspects of the evolution of Bhagat Singh as a National Hero, including the definite shift towards socialism in his outlook. This is also among the best works on the revolutionary nationalist and their rolf in India\'s Freedom Movement. Documents and short writings crucial to understanding the essential core of their ideology and programme are included as appendices. This is that rare book of history that scholars and the general reader alike could enjoy and appreciate and which no student of modern South Asian history can do without. Above all, it describes incredibly well those momentous decades of the 1920s and early 30s when the left-radical agenda came to occupy a huge space on the subcontinent."