Jayaprakash Narayan or JP started the movement in Patna and eventually reached Delhi challenging the Emergency. (Representational Image)
Patna:
A slew of publications, including on the colonial-era peasant agitation and the famous 1974 student movement spearheaded by firebrand leader Jayaprakash Narayan that led to the imposition of Emergency will soon be released by the Bihar State Archives.
"We have lined up a number of publications on various subjects of historical significance and used our archival records for them. A five-volume book each on the 1974 JP movement and 'Kisan Aandolan' are the major ones.
"One of the volumes on the 1974 agitation also contains several old pictures, newspaper clippings, cartoons, among other material published during that era. It includes rare photographs showing 'JP' being lathicharged during a stir," BSA Director Vijoy Kumar told PTI.
He said work on these publications had been going on for over a year and now "we are waiting for a suitable date for their release, preferably by the chief minister".
"The book on the JP movement has been authored by a researcher who himself was part of the movement, so the account is also first-hand and the five volumes try to paint a picture of that period, which continues to haunt people's imagination," Mr Kumar said.
For archival material, he said, besides looking into "our own records, we also approached people who were part of the movement and they shared the photographs and clippings with us".
The student movement which started in Patna soon spread to other parts and 'JP' as the veteran leader was fondly called, took the movement to Delhi. The transition of the massive stir from Patna's Gandhi Maidan to Delhi's Ramlila Maidan, dubbed the 'Total Revolution' or 'Sampoorna Kranti', threatened to shake the Indira Gandhi government which imposed the Emergency on June 25, 1975.
"We have lined up a number of publications on various subjects of historical significance and used our archival records for them. A five-volume book each on the 1974 JP movement and 'Kisan Aandolan' are the major ones.
"One of the volumes on the 1974 agitation also contains several old pictures, newspaper clippings, cartoons, among other material published during that era. It includes rare photographs showing 'JP' being lathicharged during a stir," BSA Director Vijoy Kumar told PTI.
He said work on these publications had been going on for over a year and now "we are waiting for a suitable date for their release, preferably by the chief minister".
"The book on the JP movement has been authored by a researcher who himself was part of the movement, so the account is also first-hand and the five volumes try to paint a picture of that period, which continues to haunt people's imagination," Mr Kumar said.
For archival material, he said, besides looking into "our own records, we also approached people who were part of the movement and they shared the photographs and clippings with us".
The student movement which started in Patna soon spread to other parts and 'JP' as the veteran leader was fondly called, took the movement to Delhi. The transition of the massive stir from Patna's Gandhi Maidan to Delhi's Ramlila Maidan, dubbed the 'Total Revolution' or 'Sampoorna Kranti', threatened to shake the Indira Gandhi government which imposed the Emergency on June 25, 1975.
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