From Plassey to Partition

Download or read book From Plassey to Partition written by Śekhara Bandyopādhyāẏa and published by Orient Blackswan. This book was released on 2004 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Plassey to Partition is an eminently readable account of the emergence of India as a nation. It covers about two hundred years of political and socio-economic turbulence. Of particular interest to the contemporary reader will be sections such as Early Nationalism: Discontent and Dissension , Many Voices of a Nation and Freedom with Partition . On the one hand, it converses with students of Indian history and on the other, it engages general and curious readers. Few books on this crucial period of history have captured the rhythms of India s polyphonic nationalism as From Plassey to Partition.