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The Dream of Revolution: A Biography of Jayaprakash Narayan
Author: Bimal Prasad, Sujata Prasad
Publisher: Penguin Random House India
Pages: 271
Price: Rs 799
On the evening of June 25, 1975, Jayaprakash Narayan (popularly known as JP), Morarji Desai, Raj Narain, Nanaji Deshmukh, Madan Lal Khurana, and several other political stalwarts addressed a mammoth crowd at Delhi’s Ramlila Maidan, calling on Indira Gandhi to resign. JP made a fiery speech, reciting Ramdhari Singh Dinkar’s poem, “singhasan khaali karo / janata aati hai (surrender your throne, for the people are coming)”. JP exhorted the army and the police to not obey orders they considered illegal and
