demand 122, 124, 129; partition
of 129, 133, 136–7, 177;
terrorism in 70; violence and
population transfers 137, 170,
173–4; wartime unrest in 30–1Quit India Movement 110, 115–18,
123, 127, 172; bombing and
machine-gunning civilians from
the air 117–18
Radcliffe, Sir Cyril 137, 177
Radhakrishnan, Sarvepalli 242, 246
Rai, Lajpat 23, 42, 63
Rajagopalachari, Chakravarty 87, 122,
185, 222, 234
Ram, Jagjivan 251, 255
Raman, C.V. 167
Ramayana13, 46, 146
Ranga, N.G. 234, 244
Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS)
90, 170, 173–6, 184
Reddy, Sanjiva 245
Reserve Bank of India 161
Revolt of 1857 11–13, 48, 117–18,
127
Rhee, Syngman 202
Riots 31, 128, 131, 169, 170, 208,
261, 265
Robeson, Paul 76
Rolland, Romain 59
Roosevelt, Franklin Delano 114
Round Table Conferences 72–3, 77,
84, 111
Rowlatt Act (1919) 36, 37
Rowlatt Satyagraha 36–7
Roy, M.N. 43
Royal Indian Navy (RIN) Mutiny
(1946) 128
rupee–sterling link 51, 163
Russell, Bertrand 250
Russian Revolution (1917) 8, 42–3,
56, 60, 169
Salt March 68
Sanskrit, Sanskritised 12–13, 15,
208–9
sarvodaya 196
Sastroamidjojo, Ali 216
satyagraha33, 36–7, 44–5, 49, 68,
70, 109, 244
Savarkar, Vinayak Damodar 175
Sayajirao Gaekwad, ruler of Baroda
29, 73
Scheduled Castes 63, 73, 77, 84,
131–2, 148, 149, 251
Second World War 93, 98, 101–2,
120, 126, 127, 132; and Congress
ministries’ resignation 105;
Congress responses 107–10; course
of events 112–13, 121
Security Council (United Nations)
157, 179, 200, 201, 204, 222
self-determination 8, 42, 203, 207
self-government 5, 8, 21, 34–6, 61,
104
self-sufficiency seenational self-
sufficiency
Sengupta, J.M. 26
separate electorates seeelections,
electorates
Shantiniketan 41, 75
Shastri, Lal Bahadur 245, 255, 258
Shaw, George Bernard 24–5, 70
Sikhs 91, 127, 131, 137, 170, 172–3,
177, 208
Simla Conference (1946) 121–5
Simon Commission 61–3, 65, 77
Singh, Bhagat 63, 72
Singh, Hari (Maharaja of Kashmir)
177–8
Sinn Fein 21, 42
Smedley, Agnes 60
Socialist Party 151, 181–2, 184, 187
Socialist Party of India 197, 245
Somnath Temple 185
Song Meiling (Madame Chiang
Kai-shek) 113, 158
Song Qingling 59, 113
South Africa 20, 32, 33, 41, 158, 220INDEX 297