The Gandhian phase 1915-1939
1937 elections, Congress ministries and the Bose crisis 1936-39
Practise 2 PYQsConcepts to cover
- 1937 provincial elections, office acceptance debate, Congress ministries in seven then eight provinces, League's poor showing
- Civil liberties, tenancy laws, prohibition, education and Harijan measures; limits within the 1935 Act
- Haripura 1938 and National Planning Committee; Tripuri 1939 Bose defeats Sitaramayya, Pant resolution, Bose resigns; Forward Bloc May 1939 after Gandhi's distrust and the disunited Congress Left (CSP, Roy's group, communists) preferred unity to Bose
- Ministries resign October to November 1939 because India was made a party to the war without consultation and the demand for a post-war constituent assembly was refused
Where to study
A Brief History of Modern India · Rajiv Ahir (Spectrum)
- ch. 21 Congress Rule in Provinces
- ch. 20 Debates on the Future Strategy after Civil Disobedience Movement
Themes in Indian History Part III, Class XII, Theme 11 Mahatma Gandhi and the Nationalist Movement: Civil Disobedience and Beyond
- Theme 11 Mahatma Gandhi and the Nationalist Movement, pp. 1-30 (printed 286-315)
- Theme 11 Mahatma Gandhi and the Nationalist Movement, 3.2 Dialogues, p. 16 (printed 301)
- Theme 11 Mahatma Gandhi and the Nationalist Movement, 3.2 Dialogues, pp. 16-17 (printed 301-302)
Tamil Nadu State Board Class XII History
- ch. 5 Period of Radicalism in Anti-imperialist Struggles
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 March to Dandi, p. 14 (printed 106)
- ch. 8 The Making of the National Movement: 1870s-1947, Bose and the INA, p. 15 (printed 107)
India’s Struggle for Independence, 1857–1947 · Bipan Chandra and others
- ch. 26 Twenty-eight Months of Congress Rule, pp. 323-342
- ch. 34 The Crisis at Tripuri to the Cripps Mission, pp. 443-456