india since independence by bipan chandra

Post independence Indian textbooks began reflecting history that gave the Indian and not the colonial point of view and these have been taught to school children and to undergraduates for a very very long time. Indian historical knowledge has been the product of painstaking research by experts over decades. History is always written by the victor, it is said, but aren’t some facts of history uncontestable. She points out the changes are very shoddily done – even the Industrial Revolution has been removed.īelow is the full text of the interview. These, along with the objective assessments of Jawaharlal Nehru, Indira Gandhi, Jayaprakash Narayan, Lal Bahadur Shastri, Rajiv Gandhi, Vishwanath Pratap Singh and Atal Behari Vajpayee constitute a remarkable overview of a nation on the move.Mridula Mukherjee, a well-known historian professor, who taught in JNU for four decades, recently spoke to Sidharth Bhatia for ‘The Wire Talks’ podcast on the impact of the NCERT removing portions relating to the Mughals and much more from high school textbooks. There are detailed analyses of the Indian economy, including the reforms since 1991, the wide-ranging land reforms and the Green Revolution. Among the other contentious issues considered here, with all their implications for the present situation, are India's foreign policy, party politics in the Centre and the states, the Punjab problem, the growth of communalism, and anticaste politics and untouchability. Essential to the quest for consolidation of the nation was the integration of the princely states, the linguistic reorganization of the states, the integration of the tribals into the mainstream and the countering of regional imbalances.

seeking the widest possible consensus, as also how the Nehruvian political and economic agenda and basics of foreign policy were evolved and developed. In doing so, it shows how unique the Indian experience is in the Third World combining development with democracy and civil liberties. This volume analyses the challenges India has faced and the successes it has achieved over the last five decades, in the light of its colonial legacy and century-long struggle for freedom. The story of the forging of contemporary India, the world's largest democracy, is a rich and inspiring one.

India since independence by bipan chandra