Modern Indian History

Early nationalism and the Congress

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
• Economic-drain theory and press-law detail are studied under Company administration; later Congress splits are assigned to their periods.

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, The Emergence of Nationalism, p. 2 (printed 94)

• 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. 5 Foundation of the Indian National Congress: The Reality, pp. 71-81

• UPSC Detailed (Micro Topic) Syllabus, Modern History (GS SCORE) ↗

  heading: Revolutionary Nationalism

• History Syllabus (Drishti IAS, Delhi branch) ↗

  Paper 2, item 8

• Our Pasts III, Class VIII, Chapter 8: The Making of the National Movement: 1870s-1947 ↗

  The emergence of nationalism and early Congress demands, ending before the Swadeshi phase

• National Movement and Indian Democracy ↗

  Section 21.1, early Congress politics

• India’s Struggle for Independence, publisher edition record ↗

  Chapters 4–5 and 9, Congress origins and legislative action; select the passages relevant to this chapter rather than rereading events assigned elsewhere.

  Book required
• Courseware on Modern Indian History, 4th edition (Sonali Bansal and Snehil Tripathi) ↗

  Unit 6, chapters 1–3; appendix 1 for selected sessions only; study only material not covered by the selected school-text passages.

  Book required