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India's march to freedom

SURANJAN DAS

The year 1941 saw the hardening of the nationalist and imperialist standpoints in Indian politics

TOWARDS FREEDOM 1941 - Part-1: Edited by Amit K. Gupta and Arjun Dev; Oxford University Press, YMCA Building, Jai Singh Road, New Delhi-110001. Rs. 3750.

This volume is another significant addition to the Towards Freedom series, an initiative for publishing documents on the freedom movement from an Indian perspective. In his perceptive introduction, Sabyasachi Bhattacharya underlines how 1941, although less eventful than the years preceding and succeeding it, saw the hardening of the nationalist and imperialist standpoints in Indian politics, which set the stage for the “tumultuous” 1942.

Amit Gupta and Arjun Dev have, diligently and adroitly, brought together a wide range of materials related to some constituents that gave 1941 an element of criticality in India's march to freedom.

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