This in valuable set of three volumes contains the lives and speeches of thirty six eminent Indians who have played outstanding roles in the task of nation building in India and have contributed substantially towards the formation of national ideals. These great Patriots whose utterances and sacrifies have largly nourished Indian nationalism and have there by determined the temper of an epoch and who have helped to make India what it is today and what she hopes to became in the near and distant future, have a claim upon the gratful mamory of posterity which can never be passed over. These nobel sons of India who occupied Towering place in the national edifice never die, these sprits endure with an immortally co-extensive with the work which was the supreme passion of their lives. The mamories of these lives are perpetual inspiration to the race to bring into fruition the great task which they had left unfurnished.