How India Lost Her Freedom by Pandit Sunderlal ` 350

This book is a freedom fighter’s account of India’s struggle for Independence.

It tells us about how the British came to India, slowly penetrated the sub- continent and established an empire. It is a story recorded by many historians but not fully told.

The early British historians tried to play down the role of their countrymen in subjugating the native kingdoms in India by all means. It was left to a few diligent historians to carry out painstaking research and unravel the facts.

Pandit Sunderlal, who wrote this sensational book originally in Hindi in 1929, vigorously exposed the British plan to enlarge their sphere of influence in India slowly and steadily through a number of dubious methods. Apart from revealing the state of affairs between the Indian native kingdoms and the East India Company, How India

Lost Her Freedom provides a fine account of what India was prior to the advent of the British. But instead of indulging in the kind of communal narrative that is in vogue these days, the author takes pains to highlight India’s composite culture, which the British did much to destroy.

The book is written from the point of view of a secular nationalist and focuses on the crucial facts and events that led to the establishment of British rule. over India.