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The Great Speeches of Modern India tells the story of modern India through its speeches. Here are all the classics from Tilak, Gandhi, Nehru, Tagore, Ambedkar, L.K. Advani, Manmohan Singh, Indira Gandhi, and here are also some rare speechesSatyajit Ray on cinema, Vikram Seth on his school days and Godses defence of his assassination of Gandhi. Stimulating, informative, and full of rare gems, The Great Speeches of Modern India is a must on every bookshelf.

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Introduction and introductory notes Rudrangshu Mukherjee 2007

Introductory notes to speeches by Mani Shankar Aiyar,

Andr Bteille, Somnath Chatterjee, Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan

and Aruna Roy Rudrangshu Mukherjee 2011

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For

Shobita

To talk and laugh, and to do each other kindnesses; to read pleasant books together; to pass from lightest jesting to talk of deepest things and back again: to differ without rancour, to teach each other and to learn from each other; these proceeding from our hearts as we gave affection and received it back, and shown by face, by voice, by the eyes, and by a thousand other pleasing ways, kindled a flame.

Contents

Part One
1880s1947

The opening of the Indian National Congress (1885)
WOMESH CHANDRA BONERJEE
One country, two nations (1888)
SYED AHMED KHAN
On the inauguration of the Muslim League (1906)
MUSHTAQ HUSSAIN
On conserving ancient monuments (1900)
LORD CURZON
Game preservation in India (1901)
LORD CURZON
Sisters and brothers of America (1893)
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA
How and why I adopted the Hindu religion (1902)
SISTER NIVEDITA (18671911)
At Benares Hindu University (1916)
MOHANDAS KARAMCHAND GANDHI
Freedom is my birthright (1917)
BAL GANGADHAR TILAK
The trial speech (1922)
MOHANDAS KARAMCHAND GANDHI
The dangerous cult of absolute non-violence (1940)
V.D. SAVARKAR
Purna Swaraj (1929)
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU
At the second Round Table Conference (1931)
MOHANDAS KARAMCHAND GANDHI
The Muslims of India (1930)
MUHAMMAD IQBAL
The death of God (1933)
M. SINGARAVELU
Crisis of civilization (1941)
RABINDRANATH TAGORE
Give me blood and I promise you freedom! (1944)
SUBHAS CHANDRA BOSE
The great Calcutta killings (1946)
SHYAMAPROSAD MOOKERJEA
Opening address to the Constituent Assembly of Pakistan (1947)
MUHAMMAD ALI JINNAH
The dawn of freedom (1947)
SARVEPALLI RADHAKRISHNAN
Tryst with destiny (1947)
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU

Part Two
19472007

The light has gone out (1948)
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU
My father, do not rest (1948)
SAROJINI NAIDU
Why I killed Gandhi (1949)
NATHURAM GODSE
Closing speech of the first Constituent Assembly of India (1949)
B.R. AMBEDKAR
Temples of the new age (1954)
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU
Power (Calcutta, November 1954)
S.N. BOSE
On the Five-Year Plans (1955)
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU
The Hindu Code Bill (1955)
J.B. KRIPALANI
The Kashmir issue (1952)
SHYAMAPROSAD MOOKERJEA
Tibet (1959)
ATAL BIHARI VAJPAYEE
A myth (1968)
J.R.D. TATA
The presidential system (1968)
J.R.D. TATA
Importance of NGOs (1969)
JAYAPRAKASH NARAYAN
I have come to serve you (1969)
KHAN ABDUL GHAFFAR KHAN
Tragedy in Bangladesh (1971)
INDIRA GANDHI
Proclamation of Emergency (1975)
INDIRA GANDHI
Speech in the Lok Sabha on the Presidents address (1976)
SOMNATH CHATTERJEE
The education of a filmmaker (1982)
SATYAJIT RAY
Lowering the voting age to eighteen (1988)
RAJIV GANDHI
Panchayati raj (1989)
RAJIV GANDHI
Present economic situation (1991)
MANMOHAN SINGH
The future of Indo-US relations (1994)
P.V. NARASIMHA RAO
Why Ayodhya is a setback (1992)
L.K. ADVANI
The fatwa (1993)
SALMAN RUSHDIE
Survival and Right to Information (1996)
ARUNA ROY
On Founders Day (1992)
VIKRAM SETH
Doon School Founders Day address (2007)
MANI SHANKAR AIYAR
Our culture, their culture (1995)
AMARTYA SEN
Renunciation (2004)
SONIA GANDHI
On Jinnah (2005)
L.K. ADVANI
In Lahore (1999)
ATAL BIHARI VAJPAYEE
The viable university (2010)
ANDR BTEILLE
Rekindling a spark of enthusiasm (1982)
J.R.D. TATA

Preface to the Paperback Edition

The fact that this book is going in for a paperback edition is ample proof that people are interested in reading speeches. One reason for this is that the text of a speech helps to capture a slice of history even though the speech-making aspects are lost in the written word. For this edition, I have corrected a few errors that were brought to my notice. More importantly, I have added five more speeches to the original. Two out of the five that have been added are previously unpublished and I am deeply grateful to Aruna Roy and Mani Shankar Aiyar for allowing me to read these speeches and for the permission to print them.

October 2010

Rudrangshu Mukherjee

Introduction

For last years words belong to last years language

And next years words await another voice

Since our concern was speech, and speech impelled us

To purify the dialect of the tribe

And urge the mind to aftersight and foresight

T.S. Eliot, Little Gidding

Speeches are meant to be spokenand heard. For this reason, a speech is fundamentally different from other forms of written text, for it is not simply dependent on the words alonethough they are the vital components of a good speechbut on certain other skills to do with voice and even gesture. A good orator brings to a speech something more persuasive and moving than the power of the written word and these qualities often prove to be ephemeral, losing something of themselves in printed form. But there are certain speeches that retain their emotive charge. Think of Abraham Lincolns Gettysburg address and those wordsgovernment of the people, by the people and for the peoplewhich have become the most quoted definition of democracy. Or think of Winston Churchills memorable speeches during the Second World War. At the time they were made, Churchills speeches roused the British people and sustained their morale during their darkest hour. Even today, they make stirring reading and so many of the phrases and sentences that he used have become part of the English language. This book brings together some of the speeches made in India, from the end of the nineteenth century to the beginning of the twenty-first, which retain their power as written texts.

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