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Towards Freedom: Documents on the Movement for Independence in India, 1947, Part 2

Beschreibung

Part of the Towards Freedom Series, this volume contains documents related to the year 1947. It consists of two sections: the first discusses the developments in the British dominions while the second section focuses on the Princely States. In the first section, the story of India's independence unfurls through documents related to constituent assembly, partition in Bengal, Punjab, Northwest Frontier Provinces, and Sylhet. The section includes documents on the Interim Government and the India Independence Bill as well as the problem of communalism which became prominent in several parts of India. In the second section, these concerns are explored in the Princely States through a systematic investigation of the developments in north, south, and east India.

Autor

Sucheta Mahajan, is the Editor of this volume, 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 the General Editor of the Towards Freedom series, 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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hurst & Co.
• Seitenzahl: 1447
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. September 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 287mm x 226mm x 97mm
• Gewicht: 3334g
• ISBN-13: 9780199454662
• ISBN-10: 0199454663
• Artikelnr.: 52152056