
Towards Freedom
Documents on the Movement for Independence in India 1939 Part II
OUP India (Publisher)
Published on 5. June 2008
Book
Hardback
1280 pages
978-0-19-569651-6 (ISBN)
Description
This volume, part of the Towards Freedom series, contains primary sources and archival documents related to the year 1939. The first part which has now been published systematically covered in four chapters, different aspects of the history of British - the governments of the 1937 elections, the role of India in World War II, the role of Congress or the State People's Conference, and the developments in Princely India. This second part covers the other political developments of the fundamental to the year 1939-the workers' struggles and strikes in different parts of India, elections to various congress committees; activities of the Left parties, organizations, and blocks; and the communal and sectarian politics of the time. In the introduction to the volume, Mushirul Hasan provides the context of this part of the volume and provides the contours of the documents.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
New Delhi
India
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 280 mm
Width: 220 mm
Thickness: 65 mm
Weight
2702 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-569651-6 (9780195696516)
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Persons
Mushirul Hasan is Vice Chancellor, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi and a Padma Shri awardee.
Content
PREFACE ; CALENDAR OF DOCUMENTS ; INTRODUCTION ; CHAPTER I. WORKERS' STRUGGLES ; CHAPTER II. NATIONAL POLITICS (NATIONALIST) ; CHAPTER III. NATIONAL POLITICS (LEFTIST) ; CHAPTER IV. COMMUNAL AND SECTARIAN POLITICS ; INDEX