Publisher's Synopsis
For students of b.A., b.A.(hons.), and for competitive examinations like ias, p.C.S., etc. Table of contents: part I: constitutional development of india | (I) regulating act | (ii) pitt's india act and the charter act of 1813 | (iii) constitutional development upto1853 a.D. | part ii: national movement (struggle for freedom against foreign rule) | 1. March of british imperialism (toughest resistance offered by the indians | 2. Disastrous effects of british imperialism (armed uprisings against it before 1857) | 3. First armed struggle for freedom, 1857 and act of 1858 | 4. Act of 1861 a.D. | 5. Rise of nationalism and birth of congress | 6. Act of 1892 | 7. Moderate and extremist programme of congress | 8. Revolutionary movement in india and abroad | 9. Rise and growth of communalism | 10. Morley ? Minto reforms (act of 1909) | 11. The impact of the first great war and the home rule movement | 12. Government of india act, 1919 | 13. Nature and working of dyarchy in the provinces | 14. Non-co-operation movement and swaraj party | 15. Civil disobedience movement | 16. Socialist and communist trends in national movement | 17. Central government (act of 1935) | 18. Provincial governments (act of 1935) | 19. Working of the provincial autonomy | 20. Quite india movement and dawan of independence (triumph of nationalism over imperialism; imperialists quit pakistan established).