Modern Indian History

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

• 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, Freedom is our birthright, p. 6 (printed 98)

• 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. 31 The Rise and Growth of Communalism, pp. 398-413

• 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

• 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