"Excepting Lala Lajpat Raiji, the land of the five rivers has not produced in modern history a nobler Indian Patriot, a more devoted worker in the cause of the political freedom of Hindusthan, our Father Land and our Holy Land, while in suffering and sacrifice none who could be compared with him.
"Many there be who join a great cause when it is victorious and paying; a few there are who join in the fight for it when chances of ultimate victory are not out of sight; but scarcely one in a million is found who refuses to budge an inch and continues the fight for an ideal single-handed and alone even when all is lost and all have either forsaken or betrayed. A Rana Pratap at Chittore, a Bhau Sahab Peshwa at Panipat! It is they who are the standard-bearers of a Nation, a Race, a Religion and it is when drenched in their blood that the Despair of a people is reborn as a Hope in the next generation. Their immediate defeat and death assure the life and victory of a Race. Of such a mettle as that is Bhai Parmananda fashioned."
—Swatantryavir Vinayak D. Savarkar

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Contents

Introduction 13

I. At the Naolakha Police Station —Pgs. 25

II. The District Jail —Pgs. 29

III. The Central Jail —Pgs. 33

IV. The Star Chamber in Jail —Pgs. 38

V. My Thoughts —Pgs. 45

VI. The Search and Arrest —Pgs. 52

VII. The Room in Martinique —Pgs. 57

VIII. From San Francisco to lahore —Pgs. 64

IX. The Komagata Maru —Pgs. 71

X. The Death Sentence —Pgs. 78

XI. The Andaman Islands —Pgs. 94

XII. Life in the Jail —Pgs. 101

XIII. Political Prisoners —Pgs. 108

XIV. The Other Convicts —Pgs. 117

XV. The Use of the Jail 123

XVI. Lessons of Jail Life —Pgs. 129

XVII. The End of the War —Pgs. 135

XVIII. Release —Pgs. 142

XIX. What I Saw on my Return —Pgs. 149

XX. New Life —Pgs. 155

XXI. The Second Half of my New Life —Pgs. 163

XXII. My Last Letter to My Wife —Pgs. 171

XXIII. Communal Award —Pgs. 178

XXIV. Two Sad Partings —Pgs. 189