Young India

The book reflects the study of the nationalist movement in India by veteran freedom fighter and our foremost leader Lala Lajpat Rai. It covers India from 1757 to 1857 A.D. and then from the mutiny of 1857 to 1905 A.D. It was revised further by the author to the happenings up to the year 1915. It gives a detailed account of the socio-economic condition and the spread of awakening for freedom among the masses. It decimates the arguments of British colonialism of having a welfare state in India. It is an important tool for the study of Indian independence.
A great read for the current generation by one of the tallest freedom fighters of India.

Lala Lajpat Rai was born on January 28, 1865 at Dhudike village in Ferozpur District. He joined the Government College at Lahore in 1880 to study Law. Since childhood he had a desire to serve his country and therefore took a pledge to free it from foreign rule. Lajpat Rai helped to establish the nationalistic Dayanand Anglo-Vedic School and became a follower of Dayanand Saraswati. In 1888 and 1889 he was a delegate to the annual sessions of the National Congress. He moved to Lahore to practice before the High Court in 1892. In 1895 Rai helped found the Punjab National Bank, demonstrating his concern for self-help and enterprise. In October 1917, he founded the Indian Home Rule League of America in New York. In 1920, after his return from America, Lajpat Rai was invited to preside over the special session of the Congress in Calcutta. He plunged into the non-cooperation movement, which was being launched in response to the Rowlatt Act, in principle. The movement was led by Lala Lajpat Rai in Punjab and he soon came to be known as ‘Punjab Kesri’ (The Lion of Punjab). He died after the police lathi-charged on the activists, protesting the arrival of Simon Commission.