India : Fifty Years of Independence (3 Volumes-Set)

This is an outstanding work in three volumes which systematically studies the fifty years of India's independence--political, constitutional, economic and social developments--giving also the background to India's independence with a complete chronology of events, right from 1947 to 1997." (jacket)

Contents: Vol.I: Towards Independence--The Pre-1947 Period: Preface. I. The Pre-1935 Period: 1. India and the Simon report/C.F. Andrews. 2. An insight into the Khilafat movement/M. Aslam Islahi. 3. Failure of Sir Stafford cripp's mission/Naresh Chandra Roy. 4. Gandhi and the partition of India/M.M. Sankhdher. 5. India's Independence and the war/Michael Greenberg. II. Act of 1935, Federal Idea and Judiciary: 6. The fourth dimension of Indian National Movement/Sajal Nag. 7. History of tye act of 1935/S.M. Bose. 8. The sphere of provincial Government under the Government of India Act, 1935/P.N. Masaldan. 9. Provincial autonomy and the congress-league rift, 1937-1939/Uma Kaura. 10. The federal idea in India/B.P. Pandya. 11. Federal judiciary in India: a historical retrsopect/K.P. Misra.

III. Towards Free India: 12. The Rajagopalachari formula and the congress/D.N.Banerjee. 13. The proposed constituent assembly: can it solve India's constitutional problems/P.C. Alexander. 14. A review of some constitutional schemes/N. Srinivasan. 15. Pakistan/Rajendra Prasad. 16. The task before the constituent assembly/A. Appadorai. 17. Approaches to the Indian constitutional problem/Sir Maurice Gwyer. 18. The princely states and the new constitution/S.M. Bose. 19. The princely states and political awakening/S.S. Khanolkar. 20. Autonomy of Jammu and Kashmir state under British Raj/Balraj Puri. 21. Ideological foundations of the national movement in Kashmir (1901-30)/Mohan Krishen Teng and Santosh Kaul. 22. Out of the stranglehold/Verinder Grover. Appendices: 1. The Cripps mission, 1942. 2. The "quit India" demand. 3. Statment by the cabinet mission to India and his excellency the viceroy, 16 May 1946. 4. Documents on partition and Independence. 5. Accession documents of Jammu & Kashmir. 6. Punjab boundary commission or radcliffe award, 1947--report. 7. Bengal boundary commission, 1947, or radcliffe award -- report. 8. List of secretaries of state for India, 1858-1947. 9. List of members of the Indian constituent assembly of India. 10. Government of India: 1935-1947. Bibliogrpahy. Index.

Vol. II: Independence and Beyond : The Fifty Years--1947-97: Preface. I. India at Fifty: 1. Fifty years ago: when the future was in our hands/Mahendra Ved. 2. India at fifty: fault lines in two-nation theory/Asghar Ali Engineer. 3. Salute the RIN ratings: those magnificent freedom fighters/Jag Mohan. 4. India first: wafflers cannot be winners/M.D. Nalapat. 5. Looking back at events fifty years ago/Madan Gopal. 6. Parliament, Nehru and I/A.B. Vajpayee. 7. India at fifty: nowhere near attaining adulthood/L.C. Jain. 8. Campaigning for good Governance/Mukut Sah. II. The Present Politics: 9. Interpreting 1996/Rajni Kothari. 10. Towards participative union-state relations/Kamal Nayan Kabra. 11. Constitutional propriety of BJP Government at the centre/Suresh Mane.

12. A historic mandate/Hari Jaisingh. 13. Demand for a hill state in U.P.: new realities/Pradeep Kumar. 14. Uttarakhand: a promised land?/Anil Bhatt. 15. Central rule in UP insults democracy/Subhash C. Kashyap. 16. Constitutional contour of presidential power/Vijay Kumar. 17. The rise of Bahujan Samaj party/Farhat Parveen. 18. Congress, UF and Narasimha Rao/Surendra Mohan. 19. Common minimum programme: rhetoric and reality/Ruddar Datt. 20. Post-congress India: a prospect/I.K. Shukla. 21. Constitutional conventions/R. Venkataraman. 22. Political harlotry: time for new anti-defections law/Inder Jit. III. Power to Women: 23. All the caesar's wives/Harcharan Bains. 24. Rights of passage: women in political power equations/Lalita Panicker. 25. Janata Government heralds more power to women/M. Prabhavati Hashmatunissa. 26. The idea is to change power equations/Devaki Jain. 27. It could lead to ghettoisation/Madhu Kishwar.

28. Miconceptualised national policy for women/Saraswati Haider. 29. The rocky road to gender equality/Ruchira Gupta. 30. Quota for women in legislatures/M.G. Vaidya. 31. Women in Panchayats: the path ahead/Usha Narayanan. IV. Judicial Activism: 32. Judicial accountability/V.R. Krishna Iyer. 33. Parliament is not subordinate to the judiciary/S. Jaipal Reddy. 34. Judicial activism, legal education and research in globalising India/Upendra Baxi. 35. Constitutional democracy and judicial activism/Vijay Kumar. 36. Constitutional democracy and participate democracy/Kaleeswaram Raj. 37. The supreme court of India: it's advisory jurisdiction/Ranjana Arora. V. Political Corruption: 38. Gandhi on corruption. 39. Evolution of political corruption/Nikhil Chakravarty. 40. Battling corruption: going beyond rhetoric and buzz-words/Inder Jit.

41. Political system is hostage to racketeers/Madhu Limaye. 42. Free at last, to loot and plunder/Rajinder Puri. 43. Widening the net: bringing a corrupt elite to book/M.D. Nalapat. 44. Shameful Shameful/K.F. Rustamji. 45. The day Indira Gandhi came to court/B.N. Uniyal. 46. Investigate the investigators/Atul M. Setalvad. 47. The yeti and the state/S.G. Vombatkere. 48. Corruption, criminalisation, politics/Gurudas Dasgupta. 49. Corruption, crisis and everyday life/Veena Das. 50. Morality, values and principles/Kuldip Nayar. 51. Liberally corrupt/Sakina Yusuf Khan. 52. Defend our vintage values from assaults of moneyocracy/V.R. Krishna Iyer. 53. The source of corruption/Navaratna S. Rajaram. VI. Terrorism: 54. Assassination, terrorism and security/K.F. Rustamji. 55. Profile of a terrorist: a case study/J.S. Sekhon. 56. The menace of terrorism/Rajendra Singh. VII. Secularism and Communalism: 57. Secularism and the future of Indian democracy/I.K. Shukla. 58. Communalism and communal violence in 1995/Asghar Ali Engineer. 59. Fundamentalism and communalism/Bipan Chandra. 60. From secularism to Bal Thackeray/K.G. Kannabiram. 61. Muslims, secularism and secular parties/Seema Mustafa.

VIII. The Economic Reforms: 62. Myth and reality about economic reforms/Ruddar Datt. 63. Windowdressing India's external debt/Ruddar Datt. 64. Money power and state funding/L.C. Jain. 65. Relief all round. 66. Economic policies for a centre-left-Government/Ajit Mozoomdar. 67. Bubble gum economics: foreign funds in low priority areas/Sujit John. 68. Human development report and new economic policy in India/Saraswati Haider. 69. The visible hand, the invisible hand and economic reforms/Ankit Mehta and Shachi Trivedi. 70. The challenge of liberalisation/Satya Deva. IX: Net Opportunities in Kashmir: 71. Dilemmas of the "new" Kashmiri leadership/Karan R. Sawhny. 72. Kashmir: change for the better?/Satyapal Dang. 73. Kashmir: Farooq Abdullah Has Won a Mandate of hope/Ajit Kumar Jha. 74. Regaining paradise: lessons for Farooq from the past/Janak Singh. 75. "Dispute" over Kashmir: how far can India go?/Karan R. Sawhny. 76. Deve Gowda's opportunity in Kashmir/Balraj Puri.

77. Political process in Jammu & Kashmir/G.S. Bhargawa. 78. Jammu and Kashmir: real struggle lies ahead/Brij Bhardwaj. 79. Farooq must encash the new political advantage/Anand K. Sahay. 80. Bringing new life into Kashmir/A.N. Dar. 81. Fulfill the promises made to the Kashmiris/Nikhil Chakravarty. X. Foreign Policy, CTBT, SAARC and U.N.O.: 82. Towards 50 years of Indian foreign policy: Nehru's ghost is an oxymoron/V. Sudarshan. 83. Fifty years of foreign policy/Eric Gonsalves. 84. Triumphs and tragedies/Soumyajit Pattnaik. 85. Nuclear option: its coast/Arun Kumar. 86. NPT-CTBT and India: a bold peace approach/Som Benegal. 87. Foreign policy in the common minimum programme; a comment/Ninan Koshy. 88. Looking beyond the radcliffe line/Irfan Ahmad.

89. Dhaka to New Delhi: one decade of SAARC/Pramod Kumar Mishra. 90. India and SAARC/Kant Kishore Bhargava. 91. New frontiers of SAARC/Vijay Shukla. 92. India's fifty years at the united nations: critique/K.P. Saksena. 93. 50 years of freedom/Verinder Grover. Appendices: 1. Government of India: 1947-1997. 2. United front's policy statement. 3. Indian Government's statement in C.D. plenary on CTBT. Bibliography. Index.

Vol. III: Fifty Years of India's Independence: A Chronology of Events--1947-97: Preface. I. Land and the People: 1. Land and the people. II. Chronology of Events: 1947-1997: 2. Chronology 1947 to 1997.

[Verinder Grover's books include Elections and Politics in India, Encyclopaedia of India and her States and The Story of Punjab.]