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Congress and Indian Nationalism - The Pre-Independence Phase (Paperback)
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Seventeen distinguished historians and political scientists discuss
the phenomenon of Indian Nationalism, one hundred years after the
founding of the Congress party. They offer important new
interpretations of Nationalism's evolution during more than six
decades of crucial change and rapid growth. As India's foremost
political institution, the National Congress with its changing
fortunes mirrored Indian aspirations, ideals, dreams, and failures
during the country's struggle for nationhood. Many difficulties
face by the pre-independence Indian National Congress are
critically examined for the first time in this volume. Major times
of crisis and transition are considered, as well as the tension
between mass action and political control and the problem of
creating and maintaining unity in the face of divisive social and
economic interests and between deeply hostile religious
communities. A composite portrait of the Congress Party emerges. We
see a coalition of often conflicting communities and interests much
like India itself, struggling to stay together, tenuously united by
little more at times than a common "enemy," the imperial British
Raj. But linked together in precarious, seemingly haphazard
fashion, shifting networks of elite political entrepreneurs manage
to keep India's National Congress alive long enough to convince the
British that it would be easier to "Quit India" than to try to hang
on to it by force. With the abrupt transfer of power form the
British to the independent Dominions of India and Pakistan in 1947,
Congress provided institutional sinews for the administration of
what had been British India and over five hundred Princely States.
By contributing to a deeper understanding of India's nationalist
experience, this volume may illuminate the experience of other
Third World states. Essays by:S. BhattacharyaJudith M.
BrownMushirul HansanZoya HasanD.A. LowClaude MarkovitsJohn R.
McLaneW.H. Morris-JonesGyanendra PandeyBimal PrasadRajat Kanta
RayBarbara N. RamusackPeter D. ReevesHitesranjan SanyalRichard
SissonStanley WolpertEleanor Zelliot This title is part of UC
Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of
California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest
minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist
dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed
scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology.
This title was originally published in 1988.
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