{"product_id":"22656-mohit-sen-an-autobiography","title":"Mohit Sen:  An Autobiography","description":"\u003cb\u003e Shipping Note: This item usually arrives at your doorstep in 10-15 days\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAuthor: Anand Kishore Sahay\u003cbr\u003eTranslator(s)\/ Edito: Anand Kishore Sahay\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: National Book Trust\u003cbr\u003eYear: 2007\u003cbr\u003eLanguage: English\u003cbr\u003ePages: 411\u003cbr\u003eISBN\/UPC (if available): 9788123749631\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e Description\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBorn in 1929 in a distinguished westenised Brahmo Samaj family in Calcutta, Mohit Sen was educated in  Calcutta and Cambridge. It was at Cambridge that Sen met mathematics scholar Vanaja Iyengar, and the two decided to marry. He also received his party card at Cambridge.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom 1950 to 1953, Mohit Sen was in People’s Republic of china, \u003cbr\u003ewhere he attended the International Communists School in Beijing. \u003cbr\u003eSubsequently he worked at the central office of the CPI, being \u003cbr\u003eeventually elected to the party’s Central Executive Committee. He later parted with the CPI, persuaded by his thinking that the Communist movement should ally with the nationalist stream in India’s public affairs. He then founded the United communist Party of India.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMohit Sen passed away in 2003, shortly after the publication of his \u003cbr\u003eautobiography. Of Sen’s memoirs, Eric Hobsbawm, the celebrated \u003cbr\u003ehistorian of the twentieth century, has noted that”… it is a most remarkable book, written with unremitting passion and love, with acute observation of those who gave their lives to the case, but with skeptical judgment. In my view no more illuminating first-hand book on the history of Indian Communism has been written, nor is likely to be written… India was lucky to enter independence with people as honest, as selfless, and as devoted to service of the people as he.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA widely acknowledged intellectual communist, Sen wrote for India’s leading journals. His other writings include revolution in India: Problems and Perspectives, Glimpses of the History of the Communist movement in India, Maoism and the Chinese Revolution, Congress and Socialism and Naxalites and the Communists.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eContents\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eForeword\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1. My Early Years\u003cbr\u003e2. Growing Up in Calcutta\u003cbr\u003e3. In Cambridge\u003cbr\u003e4. In China\u003cbr\u003e5. The Years in the CPI Headquarters\u003cbr\u003e6. The Chinese Attack \u003cbr\u003e7. Talking with Pandit Nehru\u003cbr\u003e8. The Split and the CPI’s New Line\u003cbr\u003e9. CPI and the Prague Spring\u003cbr\u003e10. Transition and Turmoil\u003cbr\u003e11. First Years in Ajoy Bhawan\u003cbr\u003e12. Bangladesh and the emergency \u003cbr\u003e13. The Emergency and After\u003cbr\u003e14. Meetings with Indira Gandhi\u003cbr\u003e15. Indira Gandhi, Tirupati and Gujarat\u003cbr\u003e16. Raajiv Gandhi’s Endeavour\u003cbr\u003e17. The Year 1991\u003cbr\u003e18. The Last Decade \u003cbr\u003e19. Vanaja Dies\u003cbr\u003e20. Reflections\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The India Club","offers":[{"title":"Anand Kishore Sahay \/ National Book Trust \/ Paperback","offer_id":40785061740713,"sku":"22656","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0582\/1048\/4393\/products\/22656.jpg?v=1625517723","url":"https:\/\/indiaclub.com\/products\/22656-mohit-sen-an-autobiography","provider":"The India Club","version":"1.0","type":"link"}