India's Revolution : Gandhi and the Quit India Movement
by Hutchins, Francis G.
Published by : Harvard University Press (Cambridge, U.S.A) Physical details: 326 Pages 21x14 cm | HB Year: 1973| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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General Stacks | 320.954035 H973I 1973 (Browse shelf) | Available | 6012 |
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Gandhi's Quit India Movement of 1942 was the climax of a nationalist revolutionary movement which sought independence on India's own terms. Indian independence was attained through revolution, not through a benevolent grant from the British imperial regime. "The British left India because Indians had made it impossible for them to stay."
The bases for Francis Hutchins' thesis are new facts from hitherto unused sources: interviews with surviving participants in the movement, private papers from the Gandhi Memorial Museum and the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, documents in the National Archives of India. In particular, he has studied the secret records of the British government, recently made available, which reveal for the first time the extent of the revolutionary movement and Britain's plans for dealing with it.
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