Books on India's Freedom Struggle

First Online: December 11, 2005
Page Last Updated: February 17, 2024

The Kamat Memorial Library located in the town of Honavar hosts a number of reference books for researchers of Indian struggles of freedom, different movements, and eminent leaders of pre-independence era. The following is a list of reference books that are available. 

List of Books on Karnataka at Kamat Memorial Library

• Karmayogi Hanamantrao
• Namma Veera Vaniteyaru
• Apostle Of Sacrifice (Deshbhakta Karnad Sadashiv Rao Memorial Volume
• Vishwa Kannada Vol I
• Hitachintan
• Women and Social injustice
• Builders of Modern India Charles Freer Andrews
• Kamaladevi Chattopadhyaya
• Konkani Saraspaticho Itihas
• Tarangini
• Inqilab
• My Life and Struggle
• Chittagong Armoury Raiders Reminiscenes.
• Durgadas Rathor
• Tirumale Rajamma [Kannada work]
• An Enlightened Life (Kannada work)
• Annie Besant
• History of Sirsi Taluk ( Kannada Work)
• Siddavanahalli Nijalingappa the Architect of Karnataka

The list does not reflect complete holdings of Kamat Memorial Library

List of Research Abstracts on Freedom Struggle

• Mohandas K. Gandhi: Citizenship and Community for an Industrial Age
  by Hunt R.W.
  in Bulletin of Science, Technology and Society
• The Untold and Alternate Story of the Indian Subcontinent's War of Independence
  by Ali T.
  in African and Asian Studies
• BJP, India's Foreign Policy and the "Realist Alternative" to the Nehruvian Tradition
  by Chaulia S.S
  in International Politics
• Subhas Chandra Bose's Position vis-a-vis Germany Before World War II
  by Weidemann D.
  in Asien Afrika Latinamerika
• An Interview with Narendra Desai, a Gandhian Activist
  by Kothari R.
  in Interventions: international journal of postcolonial studies
• India: Fifty Years of Independence
  by Ward, Geoffrey C. (Author) and McCurry, Steve (Photographer)
  in National Geographic
• Freedom Homespun -- National Independence and Textile Production in India
  by Bean, Susan S.
  in Asian Art & Culture
• Presidential address on the 6th Conference of Itihasa Academy.
  by Ramesh K.V.
  in Itihasa Darshana
• Role of Davangere in Freedom Movement
  by Kamath Suryanath
  in Itihasa Darshana
• Freedom At Midnight
  by Singh Khushwant
  in The Illustrated Weekly of India
• Uttara Kannada Jilhe
  by Nayka Susheela
  in Karmaveer
• Mudavidu Venkatrayaru
  by Hoskeri N.A
  in Karmaveer
• India in Crisis
  by Scofield John
  in National Geographic Magazine
• The Untold and Alternate Story of the Indian Subcontinent's War of Independence
  by Ali Tahseen
  in African and Asian Studies
• The British Commonwealth of Nations
  by Underwood Eric
  in National Geographic Magazine
• Indian Architecture and the "Sixth" Millennium 2000: Reflections On The Arts In India, edited by Pratapaditya Pal,
  by Doshi, Balkrishna
  in Marg
• The Iconic and the Narrative in Jain Painting: Miniature Painting : Early Articulations: 1050-1350 A.D.; Regional Interpretations: 1350-1550 A.D.
  by Doshi, Saryu
  in Marg
• "We Need a House of Our Own": The Impasse of Indian Theatre after Independence
  by Bharucha, Rustom
  in Marg
• Gandhara Art
  by Dickinson, Eric
  in Marg

See Also:

• Tryst with Destiny -- The story of India's struggle for freedom remains as a guiding light for resolving the various conflicts around the globe
• Congress Archive -- Rare pictures and artifacts from the archives of Indian National Congress. A pictorial story of India's freedom struggle.