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Towards Freedom: Documents on the Movement for Independence in India, 1947, Part 2 (Hardback) | Released: 16 Sep 2015
By: Sucheta Mahajan (Author) Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA26.00% Off ₹4,436.00
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The Towards Freedom series is an endeavour to document the years leading to Independence. It goes beyond the overtly political activities of the time and the notion of Independence as ‘transfer of power’. The volumes of this series underscore the fact that the struggle for Independence was not just about... Read More
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Author:
Sucheta Mahajan
Publisher Name:
Oxford University Press, USA
Language:
English
Binding:
(Hardback)
About The Book
The Towards Freedom series is an endeavour to document the years leading to Independence. It goes beyond the overtly political activities of the time and the notion of Independence as 'transfer of power'. The volumes of this series underscore the fact that the struggle for Independence was not just about attaining freedom from a colonial power-it also comprised efforts to seek social justice, economic empowerment, and cultural autonomy. With meticulously selected historical material from 1937 to 1947, the volumes bring to the fore the activities, attitudes, and ideas of diverse sections of Indian society. The 1947 volume, published in three parts, covers the major socio-political processes of that fateful year. The first part highlights the main political events that took place in the three-way conflict between imperialist, nationalist, and communal forces. The story continues in the second part, which takes up the partition award and the actual process of partition, the settlement of boundaries, the rehabilitation of refugees, and the developments in the princely states. The third part brings to the fore themes such as the future of the Congress, peasants' and workers' struggles, caste, minorities, language and literature, the position of women, the economic consequences of partition, foreign relations, and the celebrations of 15th August. In this part, the second in the 1947 volume, the story of India's independence and partition unfurls through documents ranging from newspapers, private papers, and letters, to speeches, maps, cartoons, and colonial archives. The documents relate to the Constituent Assembly, the partition award, partition in Bengal and Punjab, the referendum in the Northwest Frontier Provinces and Sylhet, and the princely states, as also those on the Interim Government and the India Independence Bill. This part also highlights the problem of communalism which became so pronounced in several regions of India during this period that even the parties which stood for unity, such as the Congress, had little option but to accept partition.About the Author: Sucheta Mahajan is Professor of History, Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. She was Gillespie Visiting Professor at the College of Wooster, Ohio, Fellow of the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla, and the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center in Italy. She was an editor of Studies in History, the journal of the centre where she teaches. Her book Independence and Partition: The Erosion of Colonial Power in India (2000) is an authoritative account of the period. Sabyasachi Bhattacharya is former Chairman, Indian Council of Historical Research, New Delhi. He was earlier Vice-Chancellor of Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan, and Professor of History at the Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.Table of Contents: Contents
General Editors Preface
Editors Introduction
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Calendar of Documents
Section III: 3 June 1947 to 15 August 1947
25. Constituent Assembly
26. Partition Award and After
27. Interim Government
28. Indian Independence Bill
29. Boundary Commissions
30. Governor-General(s) for the Dominions
31. Partition of Punjab
32. Partition of Bengal
33. Referendum in NWFP and Sylhet
34. Contending with Communalism
35. Communalism: Provinces
36. Minority Groups and Displaced Populations
37. Volunteer Organizations
Section IV: PRINCELY STATES: 1 January 1947 to 15 August 1947
38. Princely States, Constituent Assembly, and Accession
39. All India States Peoples Conference and All India States
Muslim League
40. North Indian States
41. South Indian States
42. Western Indian States
43. Central Indian States
44. Eastern Indian States
About the Editors
Index
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