Modern India 1885-1947 / by Sumit Sarkar

Includes bibliography and index.

1885-1905: POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC STRUCTURE: Imperial structure and policies -- The colonial economy -- 1885-1905: SOCIAL AND POLITICAL MOVEMENTS: Towards a history from below -- Business groups and upper classes -- Middle class consciousness and politics -- 1905-1917: POLITICAL AND SOCIAL MOVEMENTS: The viceroyalty of Curzon -- 1905-1908 The Swadeshi Movement in Bengal -- 1905-1908 Extremism in other provinces -- 1909-1914 Repression, conciliation, and divide and rule -- War and Indian politics -- 1905-1917 Movements from below -- 1917-1927: MASS NATIONALISM - EMERGENCE AND PROBLEMS: Wars, reforms and society -- Mahatma Gandhi -- Rowlatt Satyagraha -- 1919-1920 leaders and masses -- 1921-1922 Non-cooperation and Khilafat -- 1922-1927 Decline and fragmentation-- 1922-1927 Emergence and new forces -- 1923-1937 NATIONALIST ADVANCE AND ECONOMIC DEPRESSION: An overview -- 1928-1929 Simon boycott and labour upsurge -- 1930-1931 Civil disobedience -- March-December 1931 uneasy truce -- 1932-1934 Second civil disobedience movement -- 1935-1937 The constitution and the congress -- 1937-1945: POLITICAL MOVEMENTS AND WAR: 1937-1939 The congress ministers -- 1939-1942 War and Indian politics - the first phase -- 1942-1945 Quit India, famine and the last phase of war -- 1945-1947: FREEDOM AND PARTITION: 1945-1946 The edge of a volcano --1946 (March-August) The cabinet mission -- 1946-1947 Communal holocaust and peasant rebellion -- 1947 Freedom and partition