The book India’s Struggle for Independence is
published by Penguin Books.
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Author of this book – Bipan Chandra (Former
professor of Modern History at JNU)
This book specifically covers India’s freedom
movement (1857 – 1947).
Highly useful for UPSC Civil services
Preliminary exam, UPSC CDS exam, UPSC CAPF exam, State public service commission
exams.
To buy
We suggest you read all the 39 chapters of
the book for good knowledge of events and personalities of India’s freedom
movement.
This book is nearly 600 pages of content. For
prelims, you can just jot down all the key/important points and it will come to
around 30 - 40 pages.
For example:
- Sanyasi rebellion made famous by Bankim Chandra chatterjee in his novel Anand Math
- Gopal Hari Deshmukh was popularly known as Lokahitavadi.
- To fight for the rights of the passenngers in the ship, komagatu maru, a shore committee was set up under the leadership of Hussain Rahim, sohan lal pathak and Balwanth singh.
- In Malabar, K.Kelappan, the hero of the Vaikom satyagraha, walked from Calicut to Payannur to break the salt law.
List of chapters in the book is as follows,
1. The first major challenge: the revolt of 1857
2. Civil rebellions and Tribal uprisings
3. Peasant movements and uprisings after 1857
4. Foundation of the Congress: The Myth
5. Foundation of the Indian National Congress:
The reality
6. Socio-Religious reforms and the National
awakening
7. An Economic critique of colonialism
8. The fight to secure press freedom
9. Propaganda in the legislature
10. The swadeshi movement – 1903 to 1908
11. The split in the congress and the rise of
revolutionary terrorism
12. World war – 1 and the Indian Nationalism:
The Ghadar
13. The Home Rule movement and its fallout
14. Gandhiji’s Early career and Activism
15. The Non cooperation movement
16. Peasant movements and Nationalism in the
1920’s
17. The Indian working class and the National
movement
18. The struggles for Gurdwara and the National
movement
19. The years of stagnation – Swarajists,
no-changers and Gandhiji
20. Bhagat singh, Surya sen and the
revolutionary terrorists
21. The Gathering storm 1927 to 1929
22. Civil Disobedience 1930-1932
23. From Karachi to Wardha (1932 -1934)
24. The rise of the left wing
25. The strategic debate 1934 – 1937
26. Twenty eight months of congress rule
27. Peasant movements in the 1930s and 40s
28. The freedom struggle in Princely state
29. Indian capitalists and the national movement
30. The development of a nationalist foreign
policy
31. The rise and growth of communalism
32. Communalism – The liberal phase
33. Jinnah, Gowalkar and extreme communalism
34. The crisis at Tripuri to the Cripps mission
35. The quit India movement and the INA
36. Post – war national upsurge
37. Freedom and partition
38. The long term strategy of the National
movement
39. The Indian national movement: The
Ideological dimension