The Indian Nation in 1942

The Indian Nation in 1942
Author: Centre for Studies in Social Sciences
Publisher: Calcutta : Published for Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta by K.P. Bagchi
Total Pages: 284
Release: 1988
Genre: History
ISBN:

Contributed articles on the Quit India Movement, 1942.

Gandhi: 'Hind Swaraj' and Other Writings

Gandhi: 'Hind Swaraj' and Other Writings
Author: Mahatma Gandhi
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 290
Release: 1997-01-28
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780521574310

Mahatma Gandhi's fundamental work - a key to understanding both his life and thought, and South Asian politics in the twentieth century.

Quit India

Quit India
Author: Mahatma Gandhi
Publisher:
Total Pages: 104
Release: 1942
Genre: British
ISBN:

The Ascendancy of the Congress in Uttar Pradesh

The Ascendancy of the Congress in Uttar Pradesh
Author: Gyanendra Pandey
Publisher: Anthem Press
Total Pages: 265
Release: 2002
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1843310570

Investigates the social contradictions, class forces and efforts at political organization that lay behind the powerful nationalist movement in Uttar Pradesh the 1920s and '30s.

India at War

India at War
Author: Yasmin Khan
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 441
Release: 2015
Genre: History
ISBN: 0199753490

"First published in Great Britain in 2015 as The Raj at War by The Bodley Head"--Title page verso.

The Great Partition

The Great Partition
Author: Yasmin Khan
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 285
Release: 2017-07-04
Genre: History
ISBN: 0300233647

A reappraisal of the tumultuous Partition and how it ignited long-standing animosities between India and Pakistan This new edition of Yasmin Khan’s reappraisal of the tumultuous India-Pakistan Partition features an introduction reflecting on the latest research and on ways in which commemoration of the Partition has changed, and considers the Partition in light of the current refugee crisis. Reviews of the first edition: “A riveting book on this terrible story.”—Economist “Unsparing. . . . Provocative and painful.”—Times (London) “Many histories of Partition focus solely on the elite policy makers. Yasmin Khan’s empathetic account gives a great insight into the hopes, dreams, and fears of the millions affected by it.”—Owen Bennett Jones, BBC

Congress and the Raj

Congress and the Raj
Author: Donald Anthony Low
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 536
Release: 2006
Genre: History
ISBN:

Brings together essays on the national movement and populist politics in India and carries a foreword on the historiography of the nationalist movement.

India's Revolution; Gandhi and the Quit India Movement

India's Revolution; Gandhi and the Quit India Movement
Author: Francis G. Hutchins
Publisher: Cambridge : Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 350
Release: 1973
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

Gandhi's Quit India Movement of 1942 was the climax of a nationalist revolutionary movement which sought independence on India's own terms. Indian independence was attained through revolution, not through a benevolent grant from the British imperial regime. "The British left India because Indians had made it impossible for them to stay." The bases for Francis Hutchins' thesis are new facts from hitherto unused sources: interviews with surviving participants in the movement, private papers from the Gandhi Memorial Museum and the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, documents in the National Archives of India. In particular, he has studied the secret records of the British government, recently made available, which reveal for the first time the extent of the revolutionary movement and Britain's plans for dealing with it. Of the British records Hutchins says, "No other regime has left such careful documentation of its strategies or compiled such extensive records revealing the way in which it was overthrown." Even though England had always proclaimed its hope that India would one day become independent, the tacit assumption was that this was a remote eventuality. Only after Gandhi's Quit India Movement did Britain's political parties resign themselves to the necessity to leave quickly, whether or not they believed India was "ready." Obscured by censorship in India and by preoccupation with World War II, the significance of Gandhi's revolutionary technique was not appreciated at the time. Hutchins' impressive analysis uses the Indian case to develop a general theory of the revolutionary nature of colonial nationalism.