{"product_id":"congress-and-the-raj-facets-of-the-indian-struggle-1917-47","title":"Congress and The Raj - Facets of the Indian Struggle 1917-47","description":"\u003cp\u003eAuthor: D A Low\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Oxford University Press\u003cbr\u003eYear: 2004\u003cbr\u003eLanguage: English\u003cbr\u003ePages: 511\u003cbr\u003eISBN\/UPC (if available): 019567054X\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e Description\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe essays collected here constitute a significant study of the national movement and popular politics in modern India. Their enduring significance is suggested by a move away from studying the mainstream nationalist discourse to focus on the less-eulogized facets of the anti-imperialist movement at the village, city, region, and provincial levels.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eD A Low, the editor of this volume was the founder of the Canberra-Sussex school that initiated the transition from elite to popular historiography. This new edition carries a Foreword, by Rajat Kanta Ray, a leading contemporary historian, that grounds the work and supplies the reason for the revival of this classic. He narrates an interesting anecdotal history of the historiography of Congress and the Raj and the resultant intellectual debate that raged at the time.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn his introduction, Low underlines the fact that the transfer of power came about not through any war of independence but partly because of the ability of the Congress to win over peasant communities which ironically the British had enfranchised.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe contributors include leading scholars: Ravinder Kumar, Brian Stoddart, Judith Brown, Gyanendra Pandey, DEU Baker, James Manor, and Robin Jeffrey among others. Their chapters cover Conges politics in Bombay, coastal Andhra Pradesh, the United Provinces, Central Provinces, Berar, Tamil Nadu, Bihar and Rohilkhand besides looking at the civil disobedience movement led by Gandhi, the peasant agitations in Gujarat, and Gandhian politics in Mysore.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis valuable collection will be cherished by those concerned with the history of nationalism and imperialism as well as the origins of post-Independence politics in India. It will be of particular interest to scholars and students of history, politics, and the lay reader.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eREVIEWS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe book is a valuable addition to the historiography of modern India. The essays provide a useful summary of the various theories in general circulation; a critical examination of them enables us to monitor recent trends in the historiography of Indian nationalism and to assess the strengths and weaknesses of current interpretations of the political economy of the Indian countryside.\u003cbr\u003e-B R Tomlinson, university of Strathclyde, Scotland\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe articles gather together, illustrative maps, many new historical sources, facts from autobiographical accounts in the regional languages, as well as from interviews with contemporary local level leadership and little-used revenue and agricultural economic manuals, to yield a mine of information to new research workers.\u003cbr\u003e-Barun De, University of Calcutta\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCongress and the Raj, brings the work of a number of scholars to bear on the three decades during which the British government faced an overt and sustained challenge to the legitimacy of its very presence in India.\u003cbr\u003e-David Taylor, School of Oriental and African Studies, London\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eContents\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePREFACE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLIST OF MAPS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eABBREVIATIONS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCONTRIBUTORS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eINTRODUCTION: THE CLIMACTIC YEARS 1917-47\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Crisis of the lesser Patidars: peasant agitations in Kheda District, Gujarat, 1917-34\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom Swaraj to Purna Swaraj: nationalist politics in the city of Bombay, 1920-34\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe structure of Congress politics in coastal Andhra, 1925-37\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe role of a national leader: Gandhi, Congress and civil disobedience, 1929-34\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCivil martial law: The Government of India and the civil disobedience movements, 1930-34\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA rural base for Congress: the United Provinces, 1920-40\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe changing leadership of the Congress in the Central Provinces and Berar, 1919-39\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe politics of coalescence: the Congress in Tamilnad 1930-37\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUnity on trial: Congress in Bihar, 1929-39\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKisan populism and revolution in rural India: the 1942 disturbances in Bihar and east United Provinces\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCo-operation or confrontation? War and Congress politics 1939-42\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe problem of freedom with unity: London's India policy, 1917-47\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGandhian politics and the challenge to princely authority in Mysore, 1936-47\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA sanctified label-Congress in Travancore politics, 1938-48\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom one Raj to another: Congress politics in Rohilkhand, 1930-50\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGlossary\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The India Club","offers":[{"title":"D A Low \/ Oxford University Press \/ Hardcover","offer_id":68153617842544,"sku":"14036","price":49.25,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1041\/5203\/9792\/files\/14036.jpg?v=1793911683","url":"https:\/\/marketcalvexa.shop\/products\/congress-and-the-raj-facets-of-the-indian-struggle-1917-47","provider":"Alderstone House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}