Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay
Niyogi Books India
410 pages, Rs 795
Chattopadhyay, a noted freedom fighter and social reformer, describes the turbulent years of the nationalist movement as she experienced them, including her five years in jail. Chattopadhyay was born in 1903 and died in 1988; this is a reissue of her memoirs, originally published in 1986.