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From International Socialism, No.21, Summer 1965, p.32.
Transcribed & marked up by by Einde O’Callaghan for ETOL.
India and the Commonwealth, 1885-1929
S.R. Mehrota
Allen & Unwin, 40s.
This is a painstaking, thorough account of the surprisingly slow development of an organised demand for political independence in India. It is reliable as any academic history must be, but – as so many unfortunately are – it is narrow in scope in that it locates the origins and development of political ideas in the spontaneous activity of the self-consciously political circles, both Indian and British, rather than in the groundswell of events – war, slump, changing economic and social structure – on which they rest. It is a specialist’s work for specialists.
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