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Defining a Nation - India on the Eve of Independence, 1945 (Paperback)
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Defining a Nation - India on the Eve of Independence, 1945 (Paperback)
Series: Reacting to the Past (TM)
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Total price: R860
Discovery Miles: 8 600
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Defining a Nation is set at Simla, in the foothills of the
Himalayas, where the British viceroy has invited leaders of various
religious and political constituencies to work out the future of
Britain's largest colony. Will the British transfer power to the
Indian National Congress, which claims to speak for all Indians? Or
will a separate Muslim state Pakistan be carved out of India to be
ruled by Muslims, as the Muslim League proposes? And what will
happen to the vulnerable minorities such as the Sikhs and
untouchables or the hundreds of princely states? As British
authority wanes, tensions among Hindus, Muslims, and Sikhs smolder
and increasingly flare into violent riots that threaten to ignite
all India. Towering above it all is the frail but formidable figure
of Gandhi, whom some revere as an apostle of nonviolence and others
regard as a conniving Hindu politician. Students struggle to
reconcile religious identity with nation building perhaps the most
intractable and important issue of the modern world. Texts include
the literature of Hindu revival (Chatterjee, Tagore, and Tilak);
the Koran and the literature of Islamic nationalism (Iqbal); and
the writings of Ambedkar, Nehru, Jinnah, and Gandhi.
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