Few Figures in Modern India Have Enjoyed Such Acclaim and Adoration As Jayaprakash Narayan. and Yet, He Has Been Equally Vilified for All That Went Wrong in The Unfinished Postcolonial Movement for Freedom and Democracy. Jayaprakash Narayan, Or Jp As He Was Universally Known, Epitomized The Marxian and Gandhian Styles of Political Engagement, and Famously Brought A Powerful Government To Its Knees. Throughout His Life, He Channelled an Emotional Hunger for Transformative Politics, Jettisoned Easy Options, Shunned Power and incubated Revolutionary Ideas.a Comprehensive Study of Jps Life and Ideasfrom The Radicalism of His Thought Process At American University Campuses in The 1920s To His Political Coming of Age in The 1930s and Subsequent Disenchantment With Gandhis Leadership, From His infectious Confidence About The Future of Socialism To His Seemingly Naive Plans To Outmanoeuvre Powerful forces Within The Congress, From His Fractious Friendship With Jawaharlal Nehru To His Relentless Crusade Against The Stifling of Dissentthe Dream of Revolution, Bimal and Sujata Prasads Rigorously Researched Biography of Jp, Dispenses With Clichés, Questions Commonly Held Perceptions and Pushes The Limits of What A Biographical Portrait is Capable of.rich in anecdotes and Neverbeforetold Stories, This Book Explores The Ambiguities and Ironies of A Life Lived At The Barricades, and One Mans Unremitting Quest To Usher in A Society Based On Equality and Freedom. Product Description about The Author bimal Prasad 19242015 Was Professor of South Asian Studies At Jawaharlal Nehru University. He Was Also A Visiting Professor At The University of Leeds, A Senior Fellow At The School of Oriental and African Studies Soas, University of London, and A Fellow At Columbia University, New York. From 1991 To 1995, He Was Indias Ambassador To Nepal. Professor Prasad Authored and Edited Numerous Books On Indian History and foreign Policy. His Trilogy On Partition is Recognized As A Seminal Work of Scholarship. A Close Associate of Jayaprakash Narayan, He Chronicled Jps Political Thought and Legacy, and Edited Selections of His Writings, Speeches and Letters in Ten Volumes. sujata Prasad is A Writer, Columnist, Curator and Heritage Conservationist. Her Work and Research interests Cut Across Disciplines, intersecting With Community Health, Education, Rural Livelihoods, and The Visual and Performing Arts. Her Previous Book Was Published By Penguin Random House in 2017. A former Civil Servant, She is Currently Adviser To The National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi, and Also Serves As an Expert On The Ministry of Science and Technologys Advisory Group On Heritage Research.