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Unit 3. Emergence of Communist Party

Unit 4. Organisation of peasants and workers

Block III: Towards Independence

Unit 1. Second World war and the National movement

Unit 2. Quit India struggle
Unit 3. Indian National Army – INA Trials

Unit 4. Peasant Struggles- Telangana- Thebaga revolts

Block IV: Prelude to Partition

Unit 1. Challenges of Communalism

Unit 2. Two Nation Theory – R.S.S and Muslim League
Unit 3. Cabinet Mission Plan

Unit 4. Independence; Partition – Partition Scars

Block V: Legacy of National Movement - I

Unit 1. Formation of Indian Republic

Unit 2. Integration of Native States
Unit 3. Indian Constitution; the Idea of India

Unit 4. Preamble and basic principles

Block VI: Legacy of National Movement- II

Unit 1. Ideals of Secularism & Democracy-

Unit 2. Nehru and New India
Unit 3. Concept of Development – Mixed Economy- Five year plan

Unit 4. Nehru’s Foreign Policy – Non-alignment

Reference:

1. Sarkar, Sumit, Modern India, 1885-1947 (Delhi:Macmillian, 1985).

2. Tara Chand, History of Freedom movement in India.

3. Desai, A.R, Social Background of Indian Nationalism (MumbaI:PopularPrakasan, 1986).

4. Peasant Struggles in India (Delhi: OUP, 1979).

5. Bandyopadhyay, Sekhar, From Plassey to Partition and After: A History of Modern India

6. Chandra, Bipan, Communalism in Modern India (2nd edn.), (Delhi:Vikas, 1987).

7. Chandra, Bipan, Rise and Growth of Economic Nationalism in India (Delhi: Har-Anand, 2010).
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