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The hoodlum years / Ashok Mitra.

By: Publication details: New Delhi : Orient Longman, c1979.Description: 186 p. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9788125062813
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 954.05 MIT
LOC classification:
  • DS480.84 .M52
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Book Description Orient BlackSwan, New Delhi, India, 2016. Softcover. Condition: New. First Edition. The Hoodlum Years refer to the years of terror and agony that India passed through in the early-mid 1970s and culminated in the Emergency. At the time Ashok Mitra contributed a series of sensitive essays to the Economic and Political Weekly that tellingly and powerfully portrayed the horror of those years. This volume contains a selection of these essays, written during 1972 75 and between January and April 1977.The claustrophobic season of 1972 77, the author feels, ought to be remembered every now and then; there is otherwise a danger of our judgement being distorted by the familiar problem of forgetting.With its honest and detailed analysis, this new edition comes with a Foreword by Prabhat Patnaik. Printed Pages: 174.
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Book Description Orient BlackSwan, New Delhi, India, 2016. Softcover. Condition: New. First Edition. The Hoodlum Years refer to the years of terror and agony that India passed through in the early-mid 1970s and culminated in the Emergency. At the time Ashok Mitra contributed a series of sensitive essays to the Economic and Political Weekly that tellingly and powerfully portrayed the horror of those years. This volume contains a selection of these essays, written during 1972 75 and between January and April 1977.The claustrophobic season of 1972 77, the author feels, ought to be remembered every now and then; there is otherwise a danger of our judgement being distorted by the familiar problem of forgetting.With its honest and detailed analysis, this new edition comes with a Foreword by Prabhat Patnaik. Printed Pages: 174.

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