In The Last Heroes: Foot Soldiers of Indian Freedom (Penguin Random House, 2022), P. Sainath, the force behind the People’s Archive for Rural India (PARI), narrates the stories of Indian freedom fighters ignored by official histories.
In The Last Heroes: Foot Soldiers of Indian Freedom (Penguin Random House, 2022), P. Sainath, the force behind the People’s Archive for Rural India (PARI), narrates the stories of Indian freedom fighters ignored by official histories. Based on extensive interviews with surviving freedom fighters and their families, the book commemorates 75 years of independence in a way that students and academics would equally find appealing.