Nehru - Benjamin Zachariah

League’s composition as a party now dominated by Muslim zamindars whose main strength lay in the United Provinces (Muslims were ...

but took Gokhale’s advice to feel his way into it rather than jump in at the deep end. He spent a year touring India, during whi ...

As the war drew to a close, Indian political leaders braced themselves for the anticipated political changes. The war had had fa ...

from the central government, and provided with their own legislatures; elections were to be held on the basis of a very narrow p ...

independent India – even among those who believed the rhetoric of departure was false, and knew the struggle was still to be a l ...

pressure on the government; and personally, he was not at all keen on his son going to jail. The issue became the subject of dis ...

festival – but this was, indeed, an illegal public demonstration in defiance of the ban on public meetings. Dyer’s battalion got ...

the hail of bullets by the bodies of the dead and wounded under which he had found shelter, shot and killed O’Dwyer in London, h ...

jail, joined the Congress at Amritsar; their ability to command support from ordinary Muslims seemed to address the Congress’s l ...

‘Western’ dress and an adoption of khadiwas part of a symbolic transition to the new politics. But Motilal never endorsed the en ...

it a great success. A great majority of voters abstained from voting (even though there were strong regional variations: in Madr ...

There were reports that the ruler of a small princely state in Mewar had been threatened by his peasants that he would meet the ...

enthusiasts for the movement: they were too moderate, too timid, they feared the irrational masses and preferred the safe enviro ...

What was not clear at the time, and was not commented upon, was the almost colonial assumption among many Non-Cooperators who th ...

referred to as ‘Gandhi notes’. The Congress and Gandhi were shocked at the lack of authorial control over their utterances, dist ...

of strikes in factories throughout India, particularly in the main industrial centres; and again, throughout 1921, strikes were ...

which the peasantry lived, both of which were later to be central among his public concerns. In June 1920, before the call for N ...

audiences – he was unembarrassed about his lack of oratory skills and found he could address them in Hindustani in a conversatio ...

Gandhi had had his reasons for his unilateral declaration of retreat. On February 5, at Chauri Chaura in the United Provinces, a ...

he seldom signed his name in Hindi, very few persons could have attested to it being his signature. Finally a man was found who ...