Hindu mahasabha and rss
Whole chapter · 8–12 focused hours
Communalism and Partition
A first-attempt learner with school-level reading and little retained modern history. Later chronological chapters assume earlier phases have been studied. History optional and basic literacy remediation are outside this plan.
Includes
- Selected primary readings and historical maps/source extracts
- A short chronology or comparison notes
- Available mapped practice, mistake review and one initial recall review
Separate time needed
- Later spaced revisions and full mock examinations
- Reading every reference book, appendix or optional exercise in full
- Exclude retelling each transfer-of-power negotiation; present secularism and contemporary communal relations belong to Society/Polity.
Editorial planning estimate; not learner timing data
Where to study this topic
- Our Pasts III, Class VIII, Chapter 8: The Making of the National Movement: 1870s-1947 ↗
ch. 8 The Making of the National Movement: 1870s-1947, The happenings of 1922-1929, p. 11 (printed 103)
- India's Struggle for Independence 1857-1947 (Bipan Chandra and others), OCR text of the Digital Library of India scan, Internet Archive item in.ernet.dli.2015.130998 ↗
ch. 33 Jinnah, Golwalkar and Extreme Communalism, pp. 428-442
- UPSC Detailed (Micro Topic) Syllabus, Modern History (GS SCORE) ↗
heading: Indian National Movement I (1905-1918)
- History Syllabus (Drishti IAS, Delhi branch) ↗
Paper 2, item 12
Whole chapter reading
- India’s Struggle for Independence, publisher edition record ↗
Chapters 31–33 and the Partition analysis in chapter 37; select the passages relevant to this chapter rather than rereading events assigned elsewhere.
Book required - Challenges of Nation Building ↗
Partition: displacement and rehabilitation; integration and state reorganisation are assigned separately.
- Courseware on Modern Indian History, 4th edition (Sonali Bansal and Snehil Tripathi) ↗
Unit 6, chapter 11; Unit 7, chapter 3: communalism and Partition.
Book required