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Indulal Yagnik.The Autobiography of Indulal Yagnik. Translated by Devavrat N. Pathak, Howard Spodek, and John R. Wood. New Delhi: Manohar, Illustrations.

3 volume set.

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Volume 1: pp.; Volume 2: pp.; Volume 3: pp. $ (cloth), ISBN

Reviewed by Amrita Shodhan (Independent Scholar)
Published on H-Asia (November, )
Commissioned by Sumit Guha

Memoirs of the Leading Light of a Forgotten Gujarat

This is a welcome translation of Indulal Yagnik’s six-volume Gujarati Atmakatha (Autobiography) into English (compiled into three volumes in the English translation).

Translated by Devavrat N. Pathak, Howard Spodek, and John R. Wood, it is a crucial addition to any library with claims to document India’s twentieth-century politics. Yagnik’s life spanned the main currents of Indian political life--from the Gandhian and peasant movements to the workers’ and regional autonomy movements (in his case Gujarat based).

He was born in , and worked principally as a polemicist and politi