ABSTRACT

In tracing the development of India from British colony to self-governing independent republic, this book, first published in 1974, combines examples of what this has meant to individual Indians, whether Hindu, Muslim, Sikh or Christian, with an outline of India’s history from the end of the nineteenth century to the death of Nehru in 1964. It i

chapter 1|9 pages

Indian background

chapter 3|4 pages

Jawarharlal Nehru

chapter 4|24 pages

The struggle for independence 1920–47

chapter 5|27 pages

Nehru’s India

chapter 6|8 pages

India and the world

chapter 7|1 pages

Epilogue