Highlighting the pluralist nature of the Indian nation and its struggle for
independence, this reader discusses all the debates related to the nationalist
movement in India. The essays in this book--some of them classics, others more
recent--will help to familiarize readers with these debates and are divided into
eight sections: making of modern nationalism, role of Mahatma Gandhi, peasants
and Gandhian mass movements, Muslim identity and political participation,
nation, region, and caste, women in nationalist movement, capitalists, working
class and nationalism, and the last years of British rule. The introduction
provides a broad historical outline of the nationalist movement, highlight its
various complexities and internal contradictions, and discuss