From Plassey to partition: a history of modern India / Sekhar Bandyopadhyay.
Material type: TextPublication details: New Delhi : Orient Longman, c2004Description: xix, 523 p. : maps ; 23 cmISBN: 8125025960Subject(s): India -- Politics and government | India -- History | India -- History | India -- Politics and governmentDDC classification: 954Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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General Books | Central Library, Sikkim University General Book Section | 954 BAN/F (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | P30984 |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [479]-513) and index.
1. Transition of the Eighteenth Century
1.1 Decline of the Mughal empire -- 1.2 Emergence of the regional powers -- 1.3 Foundation of the British empire
2. British Empire in India
2.1 The imperial ideology -- 2.2 Parliament and the empire -- 2.3 Extracting land revenue -- 2.4 The apparatus of rule -- 2.5 Empire and economy
3. Early Indian Responses: Reform and Rebellion
3.1 Social and religious reforms -- 3.2 Peasant and tribal uprisings -- 3.3 The revolt of 1857
4. Emergence of Indian Nationalism
4.1 Historiography of Indian nationalism -- 4.2 Agrarian society and peasant discontent -- 4.3 The new middle class and the emergence of nationalism -- 4.4 Foundation of the Indian National Congress
5. Early Nationalism: Discontent and Dissension
5.1 The moderates and economic nationalism -- 5.2 Hindu revivalism and politics --
5.3 The rise of extremism and the swadeshi movement -- 5.4 Muslim politics and the foundation of the Muslim League
6. The Age of Gandhian Politics
6.1 The carrots of limited self-government, 1909-19 -- 6.2 The arrival of Mahatma Gandhi -- 6.3 Khilafat and non-cooperation movements -- 6.4 Civil Disobedience movement -- 6.5 The act of 1935, "Paper Federation" and the princes
7. Many Voices of a Nation
7.1 Muslim alienation -- 7.2 Non-Brahman and dalit protest -- 7.3 Business and politics -- 7.4 Working class movements -- 7.5 Women's participation
8. Freedom with Partition
8.1 Quit India movement -- 8.2 The turbulent forties -- 8.3 Towards freedom with partition
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