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The book should be valuable to libraries and to all those interested in exploring the dynamics of communalism in twentieth century British India. It will no doubt advance our understanding of the issues and themes discussed and analysed by the contributors.

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This book is regarded as a personal manifesto, a statement through the history of partition and its aftermath, of the values which India's Muslims should cherish and of the national priorities they should promote. It provides the reference-point for understanding India's Partition and its legacy.

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Bringing together seminal writings of Mushirul Hasan, this omnibus deals with various aspects of Islam and Muslim identity in the subcontinent. It explores key issues like partition, Hindu-Muslim politics, Islam and pluralism, and stereotyping of Muslims.

This book brings together official government correspondence which reveals Delhi's evolution from 1911 and 1914. It describes the hurdles encountered-administrative, financial, legal, military, and interest group-based-in establishing the capital city as well as many unknown facets on urban planning, health, environment, and geography in the early twentieth century Delhi.

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Hasan has collected essays, extracts, memoirs, and a short story to create an evocative outline of the events preceding and surrounding India's partition.

Moderate or Militant argues that Indian Muslims have been misunderstood both by the nationalist discourse and the West. Using seminal texts on modern Islam and the writings of modern Indian Muslim thinkers, Mushirul Hasan discusses the pluralism of Indian Muslims and the importance of strengthening secularism in India.

This volume, based on a wide range of Urdu sources, highlights the pluralism and multiculturalism of qasbas in colonial Awadh. Moving away from an urban Lucknow-centric approach for colonial Awadh, the author studies qasbati identity, its inheritance of Indio-Persian culture, and syncretic culture.

This work focuses on a neglected aspect in Nehruvian studies and discusses the experiences of the Nehru family in prison during the national movement. The author charts out the significance of the prison experience in understanding the thoughts and ideas of one of the most prominent families which provided leadership during the Indian freedom struggle.

This volume includes twenty-one representative speeches from Jawaharlal Nehru's 'Prime Ministerial years'. They contribute an early articulation of government position and policies vis-à-vis infrastructural development, the roles of government and business, the differing requirements of communities and languages, and the inseparability of science and ethics.

This book examines the history of prison and prisoners in colonial India. Based on substantial archival research, it presents the conditions of the prisoners, their vision for the freedom movement and the various aspects of prisons in the subcontinent.

Suitable for everyone interested in understanding the political landscape of modern India, this book offers an account of Gandhi - his historical background, campaigns, impact on Indian life, and the guidance he still continues to offer in dealing with contemporary problems.

This volume discusses the lives of five significant and influential figures of nineteenth-century Delhi -- Mohammad Zakaullah, Nazir Ahmad, Sayyid Ahmad Khan, Mizra Asadullah Khan Ghalib, and Khwaja Altaf Husain Hali. It studies their attitudes and behavior towards one another, their responses to the onset of colonial rule, their experience of living through the 1857 Rebellion, their reappraisal of their culture and identity, and above all, th...

This omnibus presents a unique perspective of travel writing by Indians describing Europe during the eighteenth and nineteenth century. It presents the missing link in the east-west paradigm.