Course Objective:
(i) The paper will endeavour to highlight the growth of Indian Nationalism and the
National Movement for Freedom . In this connection it will highlight the
responses of the various sections of the people.
(ii) It will also describe the initial transition from the Colonial to the Post-Colonial era.
Unit-1 I. Cultures Changes and Social and Religious Reform Movements:
[a] The Advent of Printing and its Implications
[b] Reform and Revival: Brahmo Samaj, Prarthna Samaj, and
Ramakrishna and Vivekananda, Arya Samaj, Wahabi, Deoband, Aligarh
and Singh Sabha Movements.
[c] Debates around Gender
[d] Making of Religious and Linguistic Identities
[e] Caste: Sanskritising and anti Brahminical Trends
Unit-2 Nationalism: Trends up to 1919:
[a] Political Ideology and Organizations, Formation of INC
[b] Moderates and Extremists.
[c] Swadeshi Movement
[d] Revolutionaries
Unit-3 Gandhian Nationalism after 1919: Ideas and Movements:
[a] Mahatma Gandhi: His Perspectives and Methods
[b] (i) Impact of the First World War
(ii) Rowlett Act: Satyagraha and Jallianwala Bagh
(iii) Non-Cooperation and Civil Disobedience
(iv) Provincial Autonomy, Quit India and INA
[c] Left Wing Movements
[d] Princely India: States People Movements
[e] Nationalism and Culture: Literature and Art
Unit-4 Nationalism and Social Groups: Interfaces:
[a] Peasants
[b] Tribal
[c] Labour
[d] Dalits
[e] Women
[f] Business groups
Unit-5 Independence and Partition
[a] Communalism: Ideologies and Practices, RSS, Hindu Maha Sabha,
Muslim League.
[b] Negotiations for Independence, Partition and Partition Riots
[c] Making of the Constitution
[d] Integration of Princely States
[e] Land Reform and Beginnings of Planning
Recommended Readings:
Judith Brown, Gandhi’s rise to Power, 1915-22.
Paul Brass, The Politics of India Since Independence, OUP, 1990.
Bipan Chandra, Nationalism and Colonialism in Modern India, 1979.
Bipan Chandra, Rise and Growth of Economic Nationalism in India.
Mohandas K. Gandhi, An Autobiography or The Story of My Experiments with Truth.
Ranajit Guha, ed., A Subaltern Studies Reader.
Peter Hardy, Muslims of British India.
Mushirul Hasan, ed., India’s Partition, Oxford in India Readings.
D.A. Low, ed., Congress and the Raj.
John R. McLane, Indian Nationalism and the Early Congress.
Jawaharlal Nehru, An Autobiography.
Gyanendra Pandey, The Construction of Communalism in colonial north India.
Sumit Sarkar, Modern India, 1885-1947.
Anil Seal, Emergence of Indian Nationalism.
Ram Lakhan Shukla (ed.), Adhunik Bharat ka Itihas.
Eleanor Zelliot, From Untouchable to Dalit: Essays on the Ambedkar Movement.
Judith Brown, Gandhi: (et al) A Prisoner of Hope.
Bipan Chandra, Communalism in Modern India, 2nd ed., 1987.
Bipan Chandra, K.N. Panikkar, Mridula Mukherjee, Sucheta Mahajan
and Aditya Mukherjee, India’s, Struggles for Independence.
A.R. Desai, Social Background of Indian Nationalism.
A.R. Desai, Peasant Struggles in India.
Francine Frankel, India’s Political Economy, 1947-77.
Ranajit Guha, and G.C. Spivak, eds. Select Subaltern Studies.
Charles Heimsath, Indian Nationalism and Hindu Social Reform.
F. Hutchins, Illusion of Permanence.
F. Hutchins, Spontaneous Revolution.
V.C. Joshi (ed.), Rammohan Roy and the process of Modernization in India.
J.Krishnamurti, Women in Colonial India.
(i) The paper will endeavour to highlight the growth of Indian Nationalism and the
National Movement for Freedom . In this connection it will highlight the
responses of the various sections of the people.
(ii) It will also describe the initial transition from the Colonial to the Post-Colonial era.
Unit-1 I. Cultures Changes and Social and Religious Reform Movements:
[a] The Advent of Printing and its Implications
[b] Reform and Revival: Brahmo Samaj, Prarthna Samaj, and
Ramakrishna and Vivekananda, Arya Samaj, Wahabi, Deoband, Aligarh
and Singh Sabha Movements.
[c] Debates around Gender
[d] Making of Religious and Linguistic Identities
[e] Caste: Sanskritising and anti Brahminical Trends
Unit-2 Nationalism: Trends up to 1919:
[a] Political Ideology and Organizations, Formation of INC
[b] Moderates and Extremists.
[c] Swadeshi Movement
[d] Revolutionaries
Unit-3 Gandhian Nationalism after 1919: Ideas and Movements:
[a] Mahatma Gandhi: His Perspectives and Methods
[b] (i) Impact of the First World War
(ii) Rowlett Act: Satyagraha and Jallianwala Bagh
(iii) Non-Cooperation and Civil Disobedience
(iv) Provincial Autonomy, Quit India and INA
[c] Left Wing Movements
[d] Princely India: States People Movements
[e] Nationalism and Culture: Literature and Art
Unit-4 Nationalism and Social Groups: Interfaces:
[a] Peasants
[b] Tribal
[c] Labour
[d] Dalits
[e] Women
[f] Business groups
Unit-5 Independence and Partition
[a] Communalism: Ideologies and Practices, RSS, Hindu Maha Sabha,
Muslim League.
[b] Negotiations for Independence, Partition and Partition Riots
[c] Making of the Constitution
[d] Integration of Princely States
[e] Land Reform and Beginnings of Planning
Recommended Readings:
Judith Brown, Gandhi’s rise to Power, 1915-22.
Paul Brass, The Politics of India Since Independence, OUP, 1990.
Bipan Chandra, Nationalism and Colonialism in Modern India, 1979.
Bipan Chandra, Rise and Growth of Economic Nationalism in India.
Mohandas K. Gandhi, An Autobiography or The Story of My Experiments with Truth.
Ranajit Guha, ed., A Subaltern Studies Reader.
Peter Hardy, Muslims of British India.
Mushirul Hasan, ed., India’s Partition, Oxford in India Readings.
D.A. Low, ed., Congress and the Raj.
John R. McLane, Indian Nationalism and the Early Congress.
Jawaharlal Nehru, An Autobiography.
Gyanendra Pandey, The Construction of Communalism in colonial north India.
Sumit Sarkar, Modern India, 1885-1947.
Anil Seal, Emergence of Indian Nationalism.
Ram Lakhan Shukla (ed.), Adhunik Bharat ka Itihas.
Eleanor Zelliot, From Untouchable to Dalit: Essays on the Ambedkar Movement.
Judith Brown, Gandhi: (et al) A Prisoner of Hope.
Bipan Chandra, Communalism in Modern India, 2nd ed., 1987.
Bipan Chandra, K.N. Panikkar, Mridula Mukherjee, Sucheta Mahajan
and Aditya Mukherjee, India’s, Struggles for Independence.
A.R. Desai, Social Background of Indian Nationalism.
A.R. Desai, Peasant Struggles in India.
Francine Frankel, India’s Political Economy, 1947-77.
Ranajit Guha, and G.C. Spivak, eds. Select Subaltern Studies.
Charles Heimsath, Indian Nationalism and Hindu Social Reform.
F. Hutchins, Illusion of Permanence.
F. Hutchins, Spontaneous Revolution.
V.C. Joshi (ed.), Rammohan Roy and the process of Modernization in India.
J.Krishnamurti, Women in Colonial India.
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