Nationalist Movement in India

Bandyopadhyay, Sekhar (Hrsg.):
Nationalist Movement in India : a reader / ed. by Sekhar Bandyopadhyay. - New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2009. - xliii, 389 S.
ISBN 978-0-19-569881-7 / 0-19-569881-9
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Beschreibung
This reader provides a comprehensive discussion of the pluralist nature of the Indian nation and its struggle for independence. It highlights the different understandings of nationalism of various social groups, classes, and regions. The introduction provides a broad historical outline of the nationalist movement in the post-1857 period and analyses its various complexities and internal contradictions. [Verlagsinformation]

Inhalt
Acknowledgements
Preface
Sekhar Bandyopadhyay: Introduction
I. THE EDUCATED CLASSES AND MODERN NATIONALISM
   1. Partha Chatterjee: Whose imagined community?
   2. Bipan Chandra: Economic nationalism
   3. Sanjay Seth: Rewriting histories of nationalism The politics of 'Moderate Nationalism' in India, 1870-1905
   4. Sumit Sarkar: Trends in Bengal's Swadeshi Movement
II. THE COMING OF MAHATMA GANDHI
   5. Judith Brown: The Mahatma and modern India
   6. Shahid Amin: Waiting for the Mahatma
III. PEASANTS IN GANDHIAN MASS MOVEMENT
   7. David Hardiman: The Rowlatt Satyagraha
   8. Rajat K. Ray: Masses in politics: Non Co-Operation Movement in Bengal
   9. David Arnold: Rebellious Hillmen: The Gudem-Rampa Risings 1839-1924
   10. Brian Stoddart: The structure of Congress politics in Coastal Andhra, 1925-37
   11. Gyanendra Pandey: The Indian Nation in 1942
IV. MUSLIM IDENTITY AND POLITICAL PARTICIPATION
   12. Mushirul Hasan: 'The Muslim Breakaway'
   13. Ayesha Jalal: Exploding communalism: The politics of Muslim identity in South Asia
V. NATION, REGION AND CASTE
   14. M.S.S. Pandian: 'Denationalising' the past: 'Nation' in E.V. Ramasamy's political discourse
   15. Eleanor Zelliot: Congress and the Untouchables, 1917-50
VI. WOMEN IN THE NATIONALIST MOVEMENT
   16. Madhu Kishwar: Gandhi and women's role in the struggle for Swaraj
   17. Tanika Sarkar: Politics and women in Bengal: The conditions and meaning of participation
VII. CAPITALISTS, WORKING CLASSES AND NATIONALISM
   18. Dwijendra Tripathi: Congress and the Industrialists (1885-1947)
   19. Vinay Bahl: Attitude of the Indian National Congress towards the working class struggle in India 1918-47
VIII. THE RESTLESS FORTIES
   20. Sumit Sarkar: Popular movements and national leadership, 1945-47
   21. Anirudh Deshpande: Sailors and the crowd popular protest in Karachi, 1946
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Index
Contributors.

Herausgeber
SEKHAR BANDYOPADHYAY Professor of Asian History, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. Profile page.

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