A History of India, Third Edition

THE FREEDOM MOVEMENT AND THE PARTITION OF INDIA relations with a Pakistan restricted to ‘Group A’. He would have preferred this ...

THE FREEDOM MOVEMENT AND THE PARTITION OF INDIA British government that Wavell had petitioned in vain. The declaration stated th ...

THE FREEDOM MOVEMENT AND THE PARTITION OF INDIA When Mountbatten saw this consensus emerging he did his best to strike the iron ...

THE FREEDOM MOVEMENT AND THE PARTITION OF INDIA vengeance and he advised Nehru to stand firm. The Indian army defended Kashmir a ...

8 THE REPUBLIC Internal affairs: political and economic development Apart from the carnage at the time of partition, the transfe ...

THE REPUBLIC administrator who could delegate work and inspire trust and confidence in those who had to work with him. As home m ...

THE REPUBLIC to the reaction to ‘Plan Balkan’ and the partition. As long as the Congress was in power, both at the centre and in ...

THE REPUBLIC introduced as constitutional amendments, as they were incompatible with the paragraph guaranteeing due compensation ...

THE REPUBLIC interrupted by the war. On the other hand, the war had made the British Indian government—earlier wedded to a laiss ...

THE REPUBLIC Moreover, the substantial peasantry which had been the beneficiary of earlier British legislation and then also of ...

THE REPUBLIC This leaves the Indian Communist Party as the most consistent leftist force in Indian politics. The party’s history ...

THE REPUBLIC Nehru was the prime minister, resulted in solid Congress majorities at the centre and in all states with the except ...

THE REPUBLIC disappeared and Maharashtra emerged once more as a Congress stronghold. Similarly, Andhra (which had started the wh ...

THE REPUBLIC opposition parties engaged in their customary inter-rivalry and could find a common denominator only in the rather ...

THE REPUBLIC The energy crisis which hit India very badly after 1973 also severely affected the prospects of Indira Gandhi’s gov ...

THE REPUBLIC General protest movements against the emergency regime gained strength. Most prominent among them was that led by J ...

THE REPUBLIC competence and universally acknowledged integrity, was thought to be closer to the Jana Sangh than to the other ele ...

THE REPUBLIC Indira Gandhi had hardly any party worth the name: she had divided it again in 1978 and many defectors had gone ove ...

THE REPUBLIC immigration agitation. ‘Jobs for the boys’ would be in danger if the Assamese were to become a minority in their ow ...

THE REPUBLIC who had prepared a contingency plan for this event well in advance. This played into the hands of Sikh extremists w ...