Author Description

About the Author Sumit Sarkar is Retired Professor in Department of History at the University of Delhi. Sabyasachi Bhattacharya is currently Chairman of hte Indian Council of Historical Research (ICHR) in New Delhi. Product Description Part of the Towards Freedom series, this volume edited by K.N.Panikkar contains documents related to the year 1940. The first part systematically covers in five chapters, different aspects of the history of socio-political history of British India like political and constitutionalnegotiations surrounding the Second World War. The first chapter discusses the various responses to the Second World War. Chapter 2 deals with the constitutional negotiations promised/demanded in lieu of Indian support of the War. The next section examines the civil disobedience programmes and theactivities of the Indian National Congress and the Left parties. The concluding two chapters deal respectively with the Individual Satyagraha movement and the communal politics. While the first part of this volume deals with All-India politics during the year 1940, the second part will cover in another five chapters popular movements-peasants, workers, Dalits, students, women and States People Movements.