A History of India, Third Edition

THE PERIOD OF COLONIAL RULE Neo-Hinduism had reached the Panjab in the form of the teachings of Swami Dayanand Saraswati, a Guja ...

THE PERIOD OF COLONIAL RULE rest consisting of customs and excise, etc. The salt tax was a very reliable one, as it was based on ...

THE PERIOD OF COLONIAL RULE The British impact on India was certainly intensified by the expansion of the railways. But one aspe ...

THE PERIOD OF COLONIAL RULE unrestricted. Queen Victoria had explicitly promised equal treatment to her Indian subjects in her p ...

THE PERIOD OF COLONIAL RULE Lord Minto had received a deputation from the Muslim League in 1906 and had promised that he would g ...

THE PERIOD OF COLONIAL RULE Secretary of State Edwin Montagu declared that the introduction of ‘responsible government’ would be ...

THE PERIOD OF COLONIAL RULE wanted to prevent a Labour government overseeing the next constitutional reform. The Simon Commissio ...

THE PERIOD OF COLONIAL RULE While the end of empire was approaching, imperial structure had attained a rather hybrid final shape ...

7 THE FREEDOM MOVEMENT AND THE PARTITION OF INDIA The Indian freedom movement The challenge of imperial rule produced India’s na ...

THE FREEDOM MOVEMENT AND THE PARTITION OF INDIA solidarity of the Christians was lacking among the Hindus. The various strands o ...

THE FREEDOM MOVEMENT AND THE PARTITION OF INDIA Viceroy Lord Lytton, a Conservative, inadvertently fostered the cooperation of I ...

THE FREEDOM MOVEMENT AND THE PARTITION OF INDIA revolutionaries: its emphasis on spiritual unity and on the liberation from illu ...

THE FREEDOM MOVEMENT AND THE PARTITION OF INDIA The Dravidian south, however, was not stirred by any movements of this kind. Nat ...

THE FREEDOM MOVEMENT AND THE PARTITION OF INDIA Gokhale managed to steer a moderate course at the Congress session and obtained ...

THE FREEDOM MOVEMENT AND THE PARTITION OF INDIA scene at that time: Annie Besant, an Irish socialist who had come to India in or ...

THE FREEDOM MOVEMENT AND THE PARTITION OF INDIA scene who knew what to do: Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. He designed a campaign wh ...

THE FREEDOM MOVEMENT AND THE PARTITION OF INDIA in the British war effort. After this experience he was even more hurt by the pa ...

THE FREEDOM MOVEMENT AND THE PARTITION OF INDIA by arguing that since the Congress had not rejected the reform outright, it shou ...

THE FREEDOM MOVEMENT AND THE PARTITION OF INDIA Whereas the Khilafatists welcomed Gandhi’s new policy, most Congress members wer ...

THE FREEDOM MOVEMENT AND THE PARTITION OF INDIA politicians—including those who had been outvoted at the special Congress—had al ...