As a kid I remember reading about Civil Disobedience Movement. It sounded like a foreign but interesting topic which I never really fully understood. And to be honest, history as a subject in the school curriculum was just a series of statements taught without any context. I don't even remember my history class or my history teacher! I sailed through the history of India without realizing the struggle, and sacrifice generations before me went through to free India from the chains of colonialism that leeched India for over three hundred years. Civil Disobedience Movement galvanized the entire nation, and brought the masses from cities to villages, farmers to barristers, and turned scattered disobedience into a national movement. But, what did Civil Disobedience really entailed? It's a question I grappled recently when I started reading ' The Man Who Saved India - Sardar Patel - And His Idea of India ' by Indic author Hindol Sengupta....
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