Author: S. R. Mehrotra
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000510956
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 261
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The story of the transformation of the old British Empire into the modern Commonwealth had often been told from the point of view of Great Britain and the ‘white dominions’. No attempt had so far been made to describe the decisive role of India in the shaping of the multi-racial Commonwealth of today. Originally published in 1965, the main theme of this work by an Indian author is the growth of the idea of Commonwealth in India from 1885, the year in which the Indian National Congress was organized, to 1929, when Congress declared ‘complete independence’ to be its goal. What did the British Empire mean to early Indian nationalists? How did the ideal of self-government of India on the Dominion model grow? What was India’s continued association with the Commonwealth valued in India and in Britain? Answers to these and similar questions are attempted in this book. Despite its great importance, the role of India in the Commonwealth in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries had received little attention from scholars. Dr Mehrotra’s clear, incisive, informed and balanced study was therefore the more welcome, not only for its source, but because it lent a new dimension to our understanding of India’s part in defining and enlarging the idea of Commonwealth. It is an important contribution to Commonwealth and to modern Indian history.
Author: Vineet Thakur
Publisher: Policy Press
ISBN: 1529217679
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 308
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Though now largely a forgotten figure, V.S. Srinivasa Sastri was a celebrated Indian politician and diplomat in the early 20th Century. This book rehabilitates Sastri and offers a diplomatic biography of his years as India’s roving ambassador in the 1920s.
Author: Sir Mocharla Ramachandra Rau
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Category : Constitutional history
Languages : en
Pages : 524
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Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 904
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Author: Robert William Seton-Watson
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Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 378
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Author: Ramchandra Ganesh Pradhan
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Category : Freedom of press
Languages : en
Pages : 112
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Author: Servants of India Society
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Languages : en
Pages : 314
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Author: G.A. Natesan
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Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 1036
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Author: Great Britain. Parliament. Joint Select Committee on the Government of India Bill
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Category : Constitutional law
Languages : en
Pages : 928
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Author: C. H. Philips
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000510964
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 257
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India inherited a system of representative and responsible government from Britain, a large part of which was incorporated in the new constitution of independent India. But in the early 1960s it was already becoming clear that this political system could not long continue without change; and the probability is that the change would be considerable. A system deriving its inspiration from a homogenous, tight little nation-state like Britain could scarcely fit a sub-continent of heterogeneous elements like India. Already, under a deceptively smooth surface, important changes in the nature of Indian political life were taking place. Originally published in 1963, the purpose of these collected studies was to explore, in the rapidly changing situation, the intimate relationship of Indian politics and society and to indicate the ways in which the deeper social and political currents were moving. As an aid in assessing the degree of change in the modern political life of India, several studies of traditional attitudes towards politics in the Hindu and Muslim empires are included, along with an assessment of the central meaning of the fundamental British statement of policy in the Montagu Declaration of 1917. Against this background, the greater part of the volume discusses the practices and trends of the previous few years.
