Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Introduction to the Series; Note on Referencing System; Preface; Author's Acknowledgements; Publisher's Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; Maps; Chronology; PART ONE: THE BACKGROUND; 1 RULERS AND SUBJECTS; The Power of the Sword; Collaboration; The Limited Raj; PART TWO: ANALYSIS; 2 IMPERIAL DILEMMAS; The Illusion of Permanence; Benefits and Costs; Macaulay's Children; The Devolution of Power; 3 NATIONALISM; Indian 'Unrest'; Nationalist Imaginings; Christmas Tamashas; The Coming of the Mahatma; Non-Cooperation and After
4 MUSLIM SEPARATISMThe Numbers Game; The 'Parting of the Ways'; Homelands; 5 HANDING OVER; The Catalyst of War; Towards Partition; Mottled Dawn; PART THREE: ASSESSMENT; 6 THE GIFT OF FREEDOM; PART FOUR: DOCUMENTS; Glossary; Who's Who; Bibliography; Index
Summary
The establishment of the Indian National Congress in 1885 marked a turning point in modern South Asian history. At the time, few grasped the significance of the event, nor understood the power that its leader would come to wield. From humble beginnings, the Congress led by Gandhi would go on to spearhead India s fight for independence from British rule: in 1947 it succeeded the British Raj as the regional ruling power. Ian Copland provides both a narrative and analysis of the process by which Indians and Pakistanis emancipated themselves from the seemingly iron-clad yoke of British imperialism
