Selected Resources

Selected Resources -- History 296 -- Fall 2024

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Ambedkar, Gandhi and Patel : the making of India's electoral system by Vundru, Raja Sekha In 1931 Mahatma Gandhi and Dr. B R Ambedkar met in London and clashed on the future of India's electoral system. Later in 1932 when the British announced reserved seats for dalits, Gandhi went on a fast unto death. Ambedkar saved his life by agreeing to the changed terms of representation, which changed the course of electoral system of India. The Gandhi - Ambedkar engagement was only on the electoral system and method of election by separate electorates which Muslims enjoyed till then. Till the partition of India in 1947, the draft Constitution provided reserved seats for minorities and Dalits, which Sardar Patel chose to abolish. The fate of India's electoral system shifted to Ambedkar and Sardar Patel after Gandhi's assassination in 1948. Sardar Patel tried to abolish reserved seats for Dalits also in 1948 only to be thwarted by Ambedkar. Those reserved seats continue. Based on a singular pursuit of tracing the electoral system and methods that define India-the world's largest democracy, this book is the first to document the evolution and account of electoral history of colonial and independent India. Do we know how Sardar Patel and Gandhi used electoral system to integrate India? Since the first provincial elections in 1937, do we know that double member constituencies existed till 1961, only to be abolished by Jawaharlal Nehru? Do we know that Ambedkar lost his first election in independent India because voters threw away their ballots? If we need women reserved seats, we need to know that we might have to try to double member constituencies. This book tells all. The story of electoral thoughts and ideas of Ambedkar, Gandhi and Patel and Ambedkar's struggle to get a representative electoral system appear for the first time in a book. In India only election results are predicted, analysed and compiled. The electoral method that determines India's every election comes into focus in this book. Can any political party get away without offering tickets to one minority community or Dalits? The history is the answer to the future - through this book.
Call Number: Asia JQ281 .V86 2018
ISBN: 9386826232
Publication Date: 2018
Basic documents in the development of modern India and Pakistan, 1835-1947 by Dobbin, Christine E. 1. T.B. Macaulay: The necessity of English education, February 2, 1835 -- 2. The Government of India Act, 1858 -- 3. Queen Victoria's proclamation to the princes, chiefs and peoples of India, November 1, 1858 -- 4. The Indian Councils Act, August 1, 1861 -- 5. Jawaharlal Nehru: The early fruits of English Education -- 6. Debendranth Tagore: The meaning of Brahmoism -- 7. Swami Vivekananda: The spiritual force of Hinduism -- 8. Surendranath Banerjea: The Indian Association -- 9. Lord Ripon and local self-government, 1882 -- 10. The Ilbert Bill, 1883 -- 11. The aims and objects of the Indian National Congress, December 1885 -- 12. Lord Dufferin: The aspirations of the Congress, November 30, 1888 -- 13. Syed Ahmad Khan: Muslims and Congress -- 14. Lord Dufferin: The 1892 reforms -- 15. The Indian Councils Act, June 20, 1892 -- 16. Lord Curzon: the duties of the British Raj, March 29, 1905 -- 17. The partition of Bengal, 1905 -- 18. B.G. Tilak: Shivaji a national hero -- 19. The ten principles of the Arya Samaj -- 20. G.K. Gokhale: Congress's aims and aspirations, December, 1905 -- 21. B.G. Tilak: The tenets of the New Party, January 2, 1907 -- 22. The Surat Split -- 23. The Morley-Minto Reforms -- 24. Separate electorates for the Muslims -- 25. Muslim address to Lord Minto, October 1, 1906 -- 26. The Lucknow Pact, December 29, 1916 -- 27. The Montagu Declaration, August 20, 1917 -- 28. The Montagu-Chelmsford Report, July 1918 -- 29. The working of dyarchy (1) -- 30. The working of dyarchy (2) -- 31. Gandhi in South Africa -- 32. The Kheda Satyagraha -- 33. Jawaharlal Nehru: Discovery of the peasants -- 34. Gandhi's programme, July 10, 1924 -- 35. Jawaharlal Nehru: On socialism -- 36. Jinnah's Fourteen Points -- 37. Lord Irwin's statement on Dominion status, October 31, 1929 -- 38. Muhammad Iqbal: A homeland for Muslims, December 29, 1930 -- 39. Jawaharlal Nehru: Independence Day, January 26, 1930 -- 40. Gandhi on civil disobedience, March 2, 1930 -- 41. The Simon Commission on communal electorates -- 42. The Gandhi-Irwin agreement, March 5, 1931 -- 43. Gandhi and the Round Table Conference, November 30, 1931 -- 44. Ramsay MacDonald: The communal issue, December 1, 1931 -- 45. B.R. Ambedkar: Gandhi does not represent the Untouchables -- 46. The demand for separate electorates for Untouchables -- 47. The Communal Award, August 4, 1932 -- 48. The Poona Pact, September, 1932 -- 49. The Government of India Act, August 2, 1935 -- 50. Jawaharlal Nehru: The growth of communalism -- 51. Jawaharlal Nehru: Presidential Address to Congress, April 12, 1936 -- 52. M.A. Jinnah: The policy of the Muslim League, October, 1937 -- 53. Resolution of the Congress Working Committee, September 14, 1939 -- 54. The Lahore Resolution, March 24, 1939 -- 55. M.A. Jinnah: Statement on the Lahore Resolution -- 56. The Cripps Mission, 1942 -- 57. The Cripps Proposals, March 30, 1942 -- 58. The "Quit India" Resolution -- 59. Subhas Chandra Bose: The Indian National Army, August 25, 1943 -- 60. The Cabinet mission, May 16, 1946 -- 61. Resolution of the All-India Muslim League Council, June 6, 1946 -- 63. C.R. Attlee on the transfer of power, February 20, 1947 -- 64. Proposal for the immediate transfer of power, June 3, 1947 -- 65. The Indian Independence Act, July 18, 1947.
Call Number: Asia DS403 .D63
ISBN: 9780442021573
Publication Date: 1970
Castes of Mind by Nicholas B. Dirks When thinking of India, it is hard not to think of caste. In academic and common parlance alike, caste has become a central symbol for India, marking it as fundamentally different from other places while expressing its essence. Nicholas Dirks argues that caste is, in fact, neither an unchanged survival of ancient India nor a single system that reflects a core cultural value. Rather than a basic expression of Indian tradition, caste is a modern phenomenon--the product of a concrete historical encounter between India and British colonial rule. Dirks does not contend that caste was invented by the British. But under British domination caste did become a single term capable of naming and above all subsuming India's diverse forms of social identity and organization. Dirks traces the career of caste from the medieval kingdoms of southern India to the textual traces of early colonial archives; from the commentaries of an eighteenth-century Jesuit to the enumerative obsessions of the late-nineteenth-century census; from the ethnographic writings of colonial administrators to those of twentieth-century Indian scholars seeking to rescue ethnography from its colonial legacy. The book also surveys the rise of caste politics in the twentieth century, focusing in particular on the emergence of caste-based movements that have threatened nationalist consensus. Castes of Mind is an ambitious book, written by an accomplished scholar with a rare mastery of centuries of Indian history and anthropology. It uses the idea of caste as the basis for a magisterial history of modern India. And in making a powerful case that the colonial past continues to haunt the Indian present, it makes an important contribution to current postcolonial theory and scholarship on contemporary Indian politics.
Call Number: Asia DS422.C3 D58 2001
ISBN: 9780691088952
Publication Date: 2001-10-07
Cracking India by Bapsi Sidhwa; R. W. Scholes (Illustrator) Patricia Cleveland-Peck is an established freelance garden writer. She has contributed to the English Garden, Garden, Gardens Illustrated, History Today, Hortus, and many other publications. Her travels have taken her to the historic gardens of Europe, jungles of Borneo, temple gardens in Japan, and on a botanical safari in Kenya. Elisabeth Dowle is the illustrator of a number of botanical books, including Fuchsias and Violas and Violettas.
Call Number: Asia DS485.P87 B87 2000
ISBN: 0915943514
Publication Date: 1993-01-01
Dr. Ambedkar and Democracy by Christophe Jaffrelot (Editor); Narender Kumar (Editor) This anthology brings together Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar's works on the theme of Democracy. The editors of this volume have assembled Ambedkar's original writings including his memorandums, speeches, lectures, and talks from 1919-1956 to understand his contribution to Indian political thought and history. An introductory chapter binds the anthology together by helping put in context Ambedkar's arguments and perceptions within contemporary debates on Democracy. It captures Ambedkar's political trajectory and addresses how his idea of Democracy is deeply embedded in both the colonial and the post-colonial context. The editors argue that Democracy is not merely a procedural and substantive idea, but relational as well and in Ambedkar it is deeply caught with ideas of state, power, nationalism, constitutionalism, equality, and liberty, thus emphasizing its societal and as well as political dimensions. The anthology therefore helps readers think through contemporary political debates in the country within the context of a critical overview of Ambedkar's thoughts on Democracy.
Call Number: Asia JQ281 .A53 2018
ISBN: 9780199483167
Publication Date: 2018-04-22
Gandhi, Bose, Nehru by Reba Som This intellectual history of 20th century Indian nationalist thought examines the relationship between three key figures of modern Indian history.
Call Number: Asia DS481.G3 S585 2004
ISBN: 0670058009
Publication Date: 2004-01-01
Gandhi and Tagore by Gangeya Mukherji This book brings together the political thought of Gandhi and Tagore to examine the relationship between politics, truth and conscience. It explores truth and conscience as viable public virtues with regard to two exemplars of ethical politics, addressing in turn the concerns of an evolving modern Indian political community. The comprehensive and textually argued discussion frames the subject of the validity of ethical politics in inhospitable contexts such as the fanatically despotic state and energised nationalism. The book studies in nuanced detail Tagore's opposition to political violence in colonial Bengal, the scope of non-violence and satyagraha as recommended by Gandhi to Jews in Nazi Germany, his response to the complexity of protest against the Jallianwala Bagh massacre, and the differently constituted nationalism of Gandhi and Tagore. It presents their famous debate in a new light, embedded within the dynamics of cultural identification, political praxis and the capacity of a community to imbibe the principles of ethical politics. Comprehensive and perceptive in analysis, this book will be a valuable addition for scholars and researchers of political science with specialisation in Indian political thought, philosophy and history. Gangeya Mukherji is Reader in English at Mahamati Prannath Mahavidyalaya, Mau-Chitrakoot, Uttar Pradesh, India.
Call Number: Asia DS481.G3 M854 2016
ISBN: 9781138946170
Publication Date: 2015-11-16
Gandhi and Tagore : visionaries of modern India by Atkinson, David W.
Call Number: Asia DS481.G3 A8 1989
ISBN: 9789622340527
Publication Date: 1989
Great women of modern India by Verinder Grover (Editor) 1. Annie Besant. -- 2. Sister Nivedita. -- 3. Sarojini Naidu. -- 4. Vija ya Lakshmi Pandit. -- 5. Raj Kumari Amrit Kaur. -- 6. Sucheta Kripa lani. --7. Indira Gandhi. -- 8. Aruna Asaf Ali.
Call Number: Asia HQ1742 .G74 1993
ISBN: 8171004555
Publication Date: 1993-01-01
Jawaharlal Nehru, the founder of modern India : the architect of Indian planning for political, economic, and social structure by Mohammad S. Khan
Call Number: Asia DS481.N35 K48 1989
ISBN: 9788170242697
Publication Date: 1989-01-01
Jinnah of Pakistan by Stanley Wolpert Portraying Jinnah's story in all its human complexity, this authoritative biography provides a uniquely insightful analysis of one of recent history's most enigmatic and powerful figures, a man whose final triumph changed the map of the Asian subcontinent.
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Call Number: Asia DS385.J5 W64 1984
ISBN: 0195034120
Publication Date: 1984-05-03
Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie The iconic masterpiece of India that introduced the world to "a glittering novelist--one with startling imaginative and intellectual resources, a master of perpetual storytelling" (The New Yorker) WINNER OF THE BEST OF THE BOOKERS * SOON TO BE A NETFLIX ORIGINAL SERIES Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time * The fortieth anniversary edition, featuring a new introduction by the author Saleem Sinai is born at the stroke of midnight on August 15, 1947, the very moment of India's independence. Greeted by fireworks displays, cheering crowds, and Prime Minister Nehru himself, Saleem grows up to learn the ominous consequences of this coincidence. His every act is mirrored and magnified in events that sway the course of national affairs; his health and well-being are inextricably bound to those of his nation; his life is inseparable, at times indistinguishable, from the history of his country. Perhaps most remarkable are the telepathic powers linking him with India's 1,000 other "midnight's children," all born in that initial hour and endowed with magical gifts. This novel is at once a fascinating family saga and an astonishing evocation of a vast land and its people-a brilliant incarnation of the universal human comedy. Forty years after its publication, Midnight's Children stands apart as both an epochal work of fiction and a brilliant performance by one of the great literary voices of our time.
Call Number: Asia PR9499.3.R8 M5 1981
ISBN: 0812976533
Publication Date: 2006-04-04
Nation As Mother by Sugata Bose 'History matters in contemporary debates on nationalism,' Sugata Bose contends in The Nation as Mother. In this interconnected set of deeply researched and powerfully argued essays and speeches Bose explores the relationship between nation, reason and religion in Indian political thought and practice. Offering a subtle interpretation of the ways of imagining the nation as mother, the book illuminates different visions of India as a free and flexible federal union that have acquired renewed salience today. Breaking out of the false dichotomy between secular nationalism and religious communalism, the author provides incisive analyses of the political legacies of Tagore and Gandhi, Nehru and Bose, Aurobindo and Jinnah, and a range of other thinkers and leaders of the anti-colonial movement. The essays question assumptions about any necessary contradiction between cosmopolitanism and patriotism and the tendency among religious majoritarians and secularists alike to confuse uniformity with unity. The speeches in Parliament draw on a rich historical repertoire to offer valuable lessons in political ethics. In arguing against the dangers of an intolerant religious majoritarianism, this book makes a case for concepts of layered and shared sovereignty that might enable an overarching sense of Indian nationhood to coexist with multiple identities of the country's diverse populace. The Nation as Mother delves into history on the occasion of the seventieth anniversary of freedom to evoke an alternative future of a new India based on cultural intimacy among its different communities.
Call Number: Asia JC311 .B6585 2017
ISBN: 0670090115
Publication Date: 2017-01-01
A New History of India by Stanley Wolpert StanleyWolpertProfessor of HistoryUniversity of California, Los Angeles.
Call Number: Asia DS436 .W66 2000
ISBN: 0195128761
Publication Date: 1999-11-25
The Other Side of Silence by Urvashi Butalia The partition of India into two countries, India and Pakistan, caused one of the most massive human convulsions in history. Within the space of two months in 1947 more than twelve million people were displaced. A million died. More than seventy-five thousand women were abducted and raped. Countless children disappeared. Homes, villages, communities, families, and relationships were destroyed. Yet, more than half a century later, little is known of the human dimensions of this event. In The Other Side of Silence , Urvashi Butalia fills this gap by placing people--their individual experiences, their private pain--at the center of this epochal event. Through interviews conducted over a ten-year period and an examination of diaries, letters, memoirs, and parliamentary documents, Butalia asks how people on the margins of history--children, women, ordinary people, the lower castes, the untouchables--have been affected by this upheaval. To understand how and why certain events become shrouded in silence, she traces facets of her own poignant and partition-scarred family history before investigating the stories of other people and their experiences of the effects of this violent disruption. Those whom she interviews reveal that, at least in private, the voices of partition have not been stilled and the bitterness remains. Throughout, Butalia reflects on difficult questions: what did community, caste, and gender have to do with the violence that accompanied partition? What was partition meant to achieve and what did it actually achieve? How, through unspeakable horrors, did the survivors go on? Believing that only by remembering and telling their stories can those affected begin the process of healing and forgetting, Butalia presents a sensitive and moving account of her quest to hear the painful truth behind the silence.
Call Number: Asia DS485.P87 B87 2000
ISBN: 0822324571
Publication Date: 2000-06-16
Righteous Republic by Ananya Vajpeyi What India's founders derived from Western political traditions is widely understood. Less well-known is how India's own rich knowledge traditions of 2,500 years influenced these men. Vajpeyi furnishes this missing account, showing how five founders turned to classical texts to fashion an original sense of Indian selfhood.
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 0674071832
Publication Date: 2012-10-31
Road to Pakistan by B. R. Nanda This is a biography of Mohammad Ali Jinnah and the story of the creation of Pakistan. At a time of much interest and concern about Pakistan in the international community, this volume provides a historical context which helps in an understanding of the present. It traces the development of the Muslim identity on the Indian subcontinent and follows Jinnah as he rode the wave of Muslim communalism to ultimate success in the demand for the partition of India and the creation of Pakistan at independence from British rule. Jinnah's successful espousal of the demand for Pakistan was a remarkable feat. In achieving this success, Jinnah traversed a long distance from the beliefs with which he entered public life. He started out a nationalist, as a protégé of senior Congress leaders like Dadabhai Naoroji. However, the introduction of separate electorates for Muslims after the Minto-Morley reforms in 1909 led him to change his position in order to appeal to his changed constituency. Even so, it was not until 1937 that he unabashedly played the religious card. He now began to see the Congress and the Hindus as his adversaries rather than the British. Through these twists and turns of posture, the one constant factor was his underlying ambition to remain in a position of leadership and eminence. This volume traces the zigzag course of Jinnah's political life and the establishment of Pakistan within the broader framework of the Indian freedom struggle. Indeed the main players in this struggle with three protagonists were the Indian National Congress and the British rulers. This work demonstrates how this bigger struggle opened the door for Muslim separatism led by Jinnah. It was through this opening, aided by British moves to use the Muslim League as a foil to the Congress, that Jinnah very astutely led his party to success in its demand for the creation of Pakistan.
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 9780415483209
Publication Date: 2010-06-22
Tagore Beyond Borders by Mihaela Gligor (Editor); Elisabetta Marino (Editor) This book presents a collection of essays on Rabindranath Tagore's creative art, social commitment, literary and artistic representation, and his unique position in the cultural history of modern India as a blend of the quintessentially Indian and the liberal Universalist.Tagore's genius is celebrated everywhere across the globe. He was the first Nobel laureate from Asia - in 1913 he won the prestigious prize for Gitanjali (Song Offerings), his volume of poetry. Apart from his stature as a writer, artist and educationist, he was also a very observant critic of nationalism. A 160 years after his birth, the times demand that Tagore should be given full attention. This collection brings together professors and researchers from India, Bangladesh, Italy, Poland, United Kingdom and Romania, all of them having a strong bond with the Indian soil. The essays take his life and work as their point of departure while celebrating his intellectual engagement and his incredible legacy over the years. The leitmotif is a Tagore who, while imaginable as made possible only within the Indian tradition, eludes attempts aimed at identification with a national culture, and remains a cosmopolitan in the best sense of the term. The essays look, from the perspectives of modernity, liberation, post-colonialism, and translatability, at a diversity of subjects including the travelogues, fiction, philosophy and cinematic representation of Tagore. The essays examine as well the educational ideas of Tagore, and his interaction with Gandhi and WEB Du Bois respectively studying aspects of difference and convergence.This volume will be of interest to readers and researchers in the fields of literature, philosophy, political science, cultural studies, Asian studies, South Asian studies, and Tagore studies.
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 9781003228745
Publication Date: 2022-12-30
Theorizing a Bengali Nation by Sucharita Sen This book explores the philosophical and political roots of the United Bengal movement of 1947 that emerged as a final bid to keep the province united against Partition. Through Abul Hashim, one of its architects, it explores the idea of an independent Bengali nation in the years preceding Independence and examines the underlying tensions of the concept of a Muslim-led independent Bangalistaan and its repercussions on a sizeable Hindu minority. Focusing on Hashim's writings and political contributions, this monograph highlights his vision of an aesthetic identity rooted within religious principles as well as civic ideals in a new united Bengal, where common law underwritten through religious ideals did not need to be necessarily opposed to western discourses of a modern state. A major, new intervention, this book will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of modern Indian history, especially the Partition, politics, and South Asian studies.
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 1032233796
Publication Date: 2024-06-07
V.P. Menon : the unsung architect of modern India by Basu, Narayani A bend in the road -- Kolar -- Glad city -- Delhi and diarchy -- Dramatis personae -- A temporary man -- "A little thing ... or a nothing" -- Black acts -- All hands on deck -- A married man -- Limbo -- Rift -- Simon Commission -- The duty of disloyalty -- London -- The beginning of the end -- Summer of empire -- Disobedience -- Transition -- A mighty transformation -- Enter Linlithgow -- "This is going to backfire" -- 1937 -- Miscalculation -- A step up -- War -- Lahore -- Harry Hodson -- "The competent little Madrassi" -- Cripps -- Exit Hodson -- The new Reforms Commissioner -- The Simla Conference -- "Hobson's choice" -- Fiasco -- Collapse -- Interim -- Sardar -- Eclipse -- Two Menons -- The last straw -- Return to Simla -- The Menon Plan -- "Let us save what we can ..." -- Centre stage -- Radcliffe -- Omission -- The States Ministry -- Secretary, Ministry of States -- "Instrument of execution" -- Endgame -- Power plays and princes -- "God help us all" -- Junagadh -- Hyderabad -- Kashmir -- Integration -- The others -- Into the shadows.
Call Number: Asia JQ249.E9 B37 2020
ISBN: 9386797682
Publication Date: 2020