Saffron versus Green

$20.90

$22.00

In stock

Free & Quick Delivery Worldwide

Communalism was a factor in the politics of the Central Provinces and Berar after the Montford Reforms. The problem of adjustment of the interests of the entrenched Hindu and emerging Muslim elite was coeval with the process of administrative changes brought about by successive constitutional measures adopted by the British government. The social fall-out of the problem was the riots that raged in the region. This work is a pioneering attempt at tracing the course of communalism in this particular politically backward province. The role of the British administrators in this growth of communalism has been critically analysed alongside the involvement of collaborators. The influence of the Hindu Mahasabha and the RSS and many Congressmenâ€™s involvement in the Hindu unity movement have been explained. This is the first full-length study of the growth of Muslim political activity in central India both before and after the Muslim League became a factor to reckon with in this region.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Kanchanmoy Mojumdar

Kanchanmoy Mojumdar has given lectures and seminars at Australian and American universities under the Commonwealth Universities Interchange Programme and Fulbright (indo-American Cultural Exchange) Fellowship scheme respectively. In 1996 and 2000 he taught a course on the history of Modern India at the University of Colorado at Boulder, USA. He was a Reader at Behrampur University, Orissa and later Professor and Head of the Department of History, Nagpur University. His publications include: Indo-Nepalese Relations in the Nineteenth Century (Calcutta, 1973), Political Relations between India and Nepal, 1877-1923 (New Delhi, 1973), Nepal and the Indian Nationalist Movement (Calcutta, 1975, Changing Tribal Life in British Orissa (New Delhi, 1998).