Historical Studies on Modern India

Contents: Introduction. 1. Indian society in the eighteenth century/V.P.S. Raghuvanshi. 2. Warren Hastings: King of the Nabobs/Michael Edwardes. 3. Oriental Jones - a biography of Sir William Jones: 1746-1794/Garland Cannon. 4. British Foreign policy and Indian affairs/G.S. Misra. 5. Origins of modern Hindustani literature: the Gilchrist letters/M.A. Siddiqi. 6. James Buckingham: the Stormy Petrel of Indian Journalism/Satyajit Das. 7. Derozio: the maker of young Bengal/Bijoy Bhattacharya. 8. The development of Hindi prose literature in the early nineteenth century/Shardadevi Vedalankar. 9. The religious ideas of Rammohun Roy: a survey of his writings on religion particularly in Persian, Sanskrit and Bengali/Ajit Kumar Ray. 10. Raja Rammohun Roy and the new learning: Raja Rammohun Memorial Lectures/B.P. Barua. 11. India: a nineteenth century study of British imperialism/B.N. Sankhdher. 12. Charles Metcalfe in India: ideas and administration, 1806-1835/D.N. Panigrahi. 13. The rebellious Rani/Sir John Smyth. 14. Rao Tula Ram: a hero of 1857/K.C. Yadav. 15. First fruits of English education, 1817-1857/B.P. Majumdar. 16. Bondage and freedom--a history of modern India, 1707-1858/Bisheshwar Prasad. 17. Hindi Patrakarita: Jatiya Chetna aur Khariboli Sahitya ki Nirmanbhumi/Krishnabihari Mishra. 18. English education in India: issues and opinions/K.K. Chatterjee. 19. Ghalib/M. Mujeeb. 20. Toru Dutt/Padmini Sen Gupta. 21. Essays in Indian history/Donovan Williams and E. Daniel Potts. 22. "White Mutiny" the Ilbert Bill crises in India and genesis of the Indian National Congress/Edwin Hirschman. 23. Gokhale: a political biography - a study of his services and political ideas/D.B. Mathur. 24. Bankimchandra Chatterjee/S.C. Sengupta. 25. Selected documents from the Aligarh archives/Yusuf Husain. 26. Autobiography of Dayanand Saraswati/K.C. Yadav. 27. Mahatma Jotirao Phooley: father of our social revolution/Dhananjay Keer. 28. The Indian National Congress in England, 1885-1920/Harish P. Kaushik. 29. New light on the Punjab disturbances in 1919/V.N. Datta. 30. Moderates and extremists in the Indian Nationalist Movement, 1883-1920/Daniel Argov. 31. The growth of education and political development in India, 1898-1920/Aparna Basu. 32. The growth of press and Public Opinion in India, 1857-1918/P.S. Khare. 33. Aftermath of non-cooperation and emergence of Swaraj Party: sources on National Movement/M.P. Sreekumaran Nair. 34. Lala Lajpat Rai: Autobiographical Writings/V.C. Joshi. 35. Tej Bahadur Sapru/S.K. Bose. 36. Role of women in the freedom movement/Manmohan Kaur. 37. A great liberal -- speeches and writings of Sir P.S. Sivaswami Ayyar/K.A. Nilakanta Sastri. 38. Banned: controversial literature and political control in British India, 1907-1947/N. Gerald Barrier. 39. Raj: the making and unmaking of British India/Lawrence James. 40. Studies in the history of Telugu journalism/K.R. Seshagiri Rao. 41. Journalism in modern India/Roland E. Wolseley. 42. K.C. Mammen Mappillai: the man and his vision/M.G. Koshy. 43. My life story of fifty-five years/Raja Mahendra Pratap. 44. S. Satyamurti/R. Parthasarathi. 45. Studies in the cultural history of India/Guy S. Metraux and Francois Crozet. 46. Modern Indo-Anglian love poetry/Subash Chandra Saha. 47. Vishva Kavita Ki Or/Padmashri Dr. Shyam Singh Shashi. 48. Journalism in Bihar/N. Kumar. 49. Glimpses of Hariyana/Buddha Prakash. 50. Archives in India: history and assets/Sailen Ghose. 51. The religion of the Sikhs/Gopal Singh. 52. Gandhi in Indian politics/Nirmal Kumar Bose and P.H. Patwardhan. 53. Mahatma Gandhi, the journalist/S.N. Bhattacharyya. 54. Selected works of Jawaharlal Nehru -- volume eight/S. Gopal. 55. Nehru on communalism/N.L. Gupta. 56. Introduction to Radhakrishnan-the man and his thought/S.J. Samaratha. 57. Zakir Husain: educationist and teacher/V.S. Mathur. 58. Thrown to the wolves: Abdul Ghaffar/Pyarelal. 59. Government archives in South Asia: a guide to national and state archives in Ceylon, India and Pakistan/D.A. Low, J.C. Iltis and M.D. Wainwright. 60. Guide to the records in the national archives of India, Part II and III/S.N. Prasad. 61. These on Asia/B.C. Bloomfield. 62. Indian studies abroad/D.N. Dandekar. 63. England, India, Nepal, Tibet, China, 1765-1958/D. Ruthermond, Margaret W. Fisher and E. Leo Rose. 64. Dictionary of national biography/S.P. Sen. 65. The history of education in modern India, 1757-1986/S.C. Ghosh. Index to books. Author index. Subject index.

"Since independence, there has been creation of some of the most scintillating, refreshing pyramids of historical literature of all times. These performances of great originality and creations of deep erudition provide novel directions and add many new dimensions. In the present work an attempt has been made to critically examine in detail some of the most valuable and outstanding works in the field of historical investigation. What this book sets out to offer is a brief review of some scholarly, detached pieces of historical analysis.

These domes of scholarship have been produced by world's most eminent experts such as Professor S. Gopal, Professor Michael Edwardes, Dr. Edwin Hirschman, G.S. Metraux, Francois Crozet, Professor M. Mujeeb, Professor Bisheshwar Prasad, Sir John Smyth, Professor D.A. Low, Dr. S.P. Sen, Dr. B.C. Bloomfield, Dr. M.P. Sreekumaran Nair, Dr. B.P. Barua, Dr. D. Ruthermond, and also by some of the most towering politicians and publicmen of modern times such as Dr. Yusuf Husain, Professor Nirmal Kumar Bose, R.B. Patwardhan, Pyarelal, Dr. Gopal Singh, Padmashri Dr. Shyam Singh Shashi and Raja Mahendra Pratap.

The main idea behind this publication is to examine many new studies on modern India and to introduce these scholars to those, who because of their highly specialized or technical interest and extremely limited time, have no occasion or opportunity to examine this literature or to form a critical estimate of it. This work also aims at providing, a critical glimpse of historical literature to the common man who has hardly any time or opportunity to scan through hundreds and thousands of pages of these masterpieces of objectivity and coherence." (jacket)