“Sometimes, we read a book of different genres and it fills us with the energetic evangelical zeal, and we become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read those books of freedom fighters.”

Kavishala suggests some awesome books to our readers to have a look on :

->‘Hind Swaraj’ by Mahatma Gandhi was the most patriotic and diplomatic approach of Gandhi Ji since 1947.

Even though this book was banned by the British government under the pretext of being seditious. It is written in the form of a dialogue between Gandhi and his close friend, Pranjivan Mehta as they argue about beliefs based on civilization, conditions of India and England, passive resistance, and education and discrimination on the basis of race, caste, sex, religion and skin color. How the Salt Movement changed the British rules in the favor of Indians and laid the foundations of Satyagrah on board.

Gandhi's Hind Swaraj took the form of a dialogue between two characters, The Reader and The Editor. The Reader specifically identified by the historian S.R. Mehrotra as Dr. Pranjivan Mehta essentially serves as the typical Indian countryman whom Gandhi would have been addressing with Hind Swaraj. The Reader voices the common beliefs and arguments of the time concerning Indian Independence. Gandhi, The Editor, explains why those arguments are flawed and interjects his own arguments. As 'The Editor' Gandhi puts it, "it is my duty patiently to try to remove your prejudice."

​->‘Gitanjali’ by Rabindranath Tagore 

Being India's most cherished renaissance figure, Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) put India on the literary map of the world when his Gitanjali was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1931. His worldwide acclaim as a social, political, religious, and aesthetic thinker, an innovator in education, and champion of the "One World" idea makes him a living presence. Gitanjali took the western world by storm and brought him worldwide recognition. It is a mystical collection of heart-touching poems selected by Tagore from his books of Bengali poetry. It has an introduction by W.B. Yeats. The poems are primarily devotional and have a mystic aura of the Indian essence.

->Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru had written ‘The Discovery of India’

During Nehru’s four years of confinement to solitude in prison and is his way of paying homage to his beloved country and its rich culture. He gave a broad view of Indian history, culture, and philosophy in beautiful words and also elaborated the customs and beliefs of that time.

The journey described in The Discovery of India begins from ancient history, leading up to the last years. Nehru uses his knowledge of the changes in socio-political scenario every foreign invader brought, to the present-day conditions.

The story how Nehru was jailed for his participation in the Quit India Movement along with other Indian leaders, and he used this time to write down his thoughts and knowledge about India's history. The book provides a broad view of Indian history, philosophy, and culture, as viewed from the eyes of Indians fighting for the independence of their country. He wrote the book during his imprisonment.

In The Discovery of India, Nehru argued that India was a historic nation with a right to sovereignty. This book also analyses in depth the philosophy of Indian life. It has 10 chapters.

->Annihilation of Caste' by BR Ambedkar

Mostly known as the ‘Father of Indian Constitution, Ambedkar, in this book argues that the immorality of caste was sustained by the Vedas and Shastras, and without “dynamiting” them there could be no reform. In his writings, he talked about the caste system and the need for its destruction. The Annihilation of Caste for the 1936 meeting of a group of liberal Hindu caste-reformers in Lahore. After reviewing the speech, conference organizers revoked Ambedkar's invitation. He then self-published the work, which became an immediate classic.

But the conference itself was canceled because Dr. Ambedkar's address was found by the Reception Committee to be unacceptable. The Committee sculpted Dr. Ambedkar's views on caste and the Hindu scriptures. They knew also that he had in unequivocal terms decided to give up Hinduism.

"Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought."