YOUNG INDIA

Lajpat Rai was one of the msot prominent leaders during India's struggle for freedom. He wrote Young India during his stay in the US and it was published there for the first time in 1916. But the British government described it 'seditious' and bannned its circulation in England and India. when the ban was lifted after a decade, Young India was published in India 1927 without any significant change. Lala Lajpat Rai's aim to write this book was firstly to provide a true account of india to the world which differed from the  Western Writings that were coloured with imperialism and racial bias. Secondly, through this work, he desired to popularise India's demand of self-government or Swaraj.