Towards India’s Freedom and Partition

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The history of the Indian national movement deserves to be better studied and known than has been the case so far. It was marked by a great deal of heroism and sacrifice on the part of the Indian people. It had leaders who were both brave and wise and of whom posterity can reasonably be proud. The partition of the country in 1947 diminished to some extent the glamour and glory of the achievement of independence. But even the partition was not an unmitigated evil. In fact, the partition of 1947 made it easier for the leaders and people of independent India to continue to pursue the ideals of the Indian national movement and to preserve and promote the unity of a major part of the subcontinent. The fifteen essays included in this book deal with the problems of the national movement, constitutional development and political unity in India during the period of British rule. They bring out the uniqueness both of the Indian challenge and of the British response to it.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR S.R. Mehrotra

Dr. S.R. Mehrotra (b. 1931) is former Professor of History, Himachal Pradesh University, Shimla and Jawaharlal Nehru Professor, Maharshi Dayanand University, Rohtak. He has also taught at the universities of Saugor, London, Wisconsin, and Rabindra Bharati. He was a Fellow of the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla and a Visiting Fellow of St. Johnâ€™s College, Cambridge. He is the Author of India and the Commonwealth 1885-1929 (1995). The present work was first published in 1971. Professor Mehrotra is currently engaged in writing a second volume on the history of the Indian National Congress, dealing with the period 1919 to 1947, and in editing in collaboration with Professor E.C. Moulton of the University of Manitoba, the papers of Allan Octavian Hume (1829-1912)