{"product_id":"jayaprakash-narayan-the-peoples-leader","title":"Jayaprakash Narayan: The People's Leader","description":"\u003cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 14px; color: #0f1111; font-family: 'Amazon Ember', Arial, sans-serif;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003eIn the tumultuous decades afterIndependence, when India’s democracyseemed at once fragile and defiant, onevoice rose above the din—not to claimpower, but to question it. He never soughtoffice. He never built a party machine.Yet when democracy faltered, the nationturned to him.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; margin: -4px 0px 14px; color: #0f1111; font-family: 'Amazon Ember', Arial, sans-serif;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003eThis book revisits the life and legacy ofJayaprakash Narayan—revolutionary,freedom fighter, socialist thinker and themoral fulcrum of one of India’s greatestpolitical upheavals. From his earlyengagement with Marxism and Gandhianphilosophy to his uncompromisingcritique of authority, the book tracesthe intellectual evolution and ethicalconvictions of a man who placedprinciple above power and refused officeyet altered history.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; margin: -4px 0px 14px; color: #0f1111; font-family: 'Amazon Ember', Arial, sans-serif;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003eIn the turbulent 1970s, as unrest deepenedand institutions bent under strain, JP’scall for ‘Total Revolution’ electrified ageneration. When the Emergency wasdeclared by Indira Gandhi, he emergedas the conscience of a silenced republic—galvanising students, workers and ordinarycitizens into a movement that wouldreshape the course of Indian democracy.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; margin: -4px 0px 14px; color: #0f1111; font-family: 'Amazon Ember', Arial, sans-serif;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003eNeither hagiography nor indictment, thisbook is the story of consciencein politics—and of democracy tested,and renewed.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Niyogi Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50666826858733,"sku":null,"price":299.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0355\/1415\/5141\/files\/SQNRTvxm8g.jpg?v=1789123913","url":"https:\/\/rekhtabooks.com\/products\/jayaprakash-narayan-the-peoples-leader","provider":"Rekhta Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}