PREM PRAKASH, founder and chairman of ANI, India\u2019s premier multimedia news agency, is a veteran journalist. He has worked with foreign broadcasters such as Gaumont Actualit\u00e9s in France, Deutsche Wochenschau in Germany, and Warner\u2013 Path\u00e9 News in the US\u2014pioneers of their time. He was also part of the group that launched the news agency Visnews in London in 1957. With a career spanning over seventy five years, Prem Prakash has traveled the world, covering major global events. He was at the forefront of war reporting during the 1962 India-China War, as well as the 1965 and 1971 India-Pakistan Wars. Over the decades, he has interacted with every Indian prime minister\u2014from Jawaharlal Nehru to Manmohan Singh. Now, he dedicates his time to writing books. History That India Ignored chronicles the sacrifices, resilience, and determination that shaped India\u2019s struggle for Independence, shedding light on lesser-known events and unsung heroes who played a pivotal role in the nation\u2019s freedom movement. ”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Who truly set India free from British rule? While historians often credit Mahatma Gandhi and the Congress Party, it\u2019s important to remember that until 1930, their demand was limited to Home Rule or Dominion Status. It was revolutionaries like Bhagat Singh, whose sacrifice compelled Congress to finally declare complete independence as India\u2019s goal. Their martyrdom, along with the fierce resistance of the Indian National Army (INA), shook the very foundations of British rule. Even British Prime Minister Clement Attlee later admitted that Gandhi\u2019s influence was \u2018minimal\u2019\u2014it was the INA\u2019s uprising, the naval mutinies, and the rebellion within the armed forces that ultimately forced Britain to withdraw from India. In History That India Ignored, veteran journalist Prem Prakash sets the record straight, restoring the revolutionaries to their rightful place in India\u2019s fight for freedom and uncovering the untold stories that shaped the nation\u2019s destiny.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":9296,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"product_cat":[80,71,67],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-107","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-history-governance","7":"product_cat-non-fiction","8":"product_cat-store","9":"pa_book-author-dana-chambers","11":"first","12":"instock","13":"shipping-taxable","14":"purchasable","15":"product-type-simple"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.crisscrosssolutions.in\/Vitasta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.crisscrosssolutions.in\/Vitasta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.crisscrosssolutions.in\/Vitasta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.crisscrosssolutions.in\/Vitasta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.crisscrosssolutions.in\/Vitasta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.crisscrosssolutions.in\/Vitasta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.crisscrosssolutions.in\/Vitasta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=107"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.crisscrosssolutions.in\/Vitasta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}