The decisive event of the lost generation in Europe and America was a great war.
It is harder to accurately determine the only event that performed the same function for this cohort in India.
Most of the giants who led the Freedom Movement – Mahatma Gandhi, Sardar Volobhbhai Patel, Lala Liipat Paradise, Ganggadhar Tilak Ball, Bipin Chandra Pal, Sarodzhin Naida – belonged to the previous generations. But their influence on those who followed the fact that the struggle for independence became truly national, and the Indian equivalent of the lost generation as a result became architects of the new independent nation.
The battles of this junior cohort were different from those formed by Ernest Hemingway, Junior Tolkien and Ezra Punt in the West.
Was the new political awareness in India the result of the division of Bengal George Kurzon and the Swedash Movement, which began in 1905, partly as a result of it?
Was this contributing to when the dead soldiers of India and the wounded veterans were met with the law of Radlat in 1919, which gave the police a further right to arrest without warrants, to spend the detainees indefinitely and in jail without trial and trial?
Was it formed by the massacre in Jalianwal BAG (also in 1919)? Or Gandhi’s rise as a national leader after returning to India in 1915?
Because these events one by one strengthened the idea of a new “India”, a generation of young leaders appeared: Br Ambedkar, Rajendra Prasad, Mahadev desai, Acharya Kripalani, Subhas Chandra Bose and, vital, Javacharlal Nera.
In India, this was not a lost generation. There was a generation, finding your voice.
According to the Freedom Freedom fighter, Benipura, who is not a stranger’s pen: “If I remember the era of unprofessional work in 1921, the image of the thunderstorm faces my eyes … No other movement has turned the foundations of Indian society to the extent … From the most modest huts to high places, from villages to cities.
When independence was won, it was this storm of young people who started the construction of the nation. In fields and hospitals, offices and transport systems. In courts that begin to support a new constitution.
It was in the hands of this generation that India is old as the Indo and knowledge valley, reborn as a new country, and appeared from the shadow of Raja and the bloody divisions.
Take a look at the first office of India and you see them. With the exception of the patel and the Rajagopalachers, every minister, starting from Nera, came from a generation born from 1883 to 1900. Dreamers. Make the impossible.
Looking back, it may be hard to believe that they have shot.
By them, they staggered the world in a gentle way.
(K Narajanan writes about movies, video games, books and periodically technologyy)
