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Sources & further reading

Every event page lists its own sources. These are the standard works we rely on.

  1. India's Struggle for Independence

    Bipan Chandra, Mridula Mukherjee, Aditya Mukherjee et al.

    The standard narrative of the national movement.

  2. Modern India 1885–1947

    Sumit Sarkar

    Detailed and critical, with attention to social history.

  3. From Plassey to Partition

    Sekhar Bandyopadhyay

    A balanced, accessible survey.

  4. Themes in Indian History, Part III (Class XII)

    NCERT

    Chapters on 1857, Gandhi and Partition.

  5. India and the Contemporary World II (Class X)

    NCERT

    'Nationalism in India' chapter.

  6. The Discovery of India

    Jawaharlal Nehru

    A primary text written in Ahmednagar jail.

  7. Hind Swaraj

    M.K. Gandhi

    Gandhi's 1909 critique of modern civilisation.