Contents
Acknowledgments 6
cHAPTER I The Art of the Freedom Struggle and the Historian 8
cHAPTER I I The Rebellion of 185 7 and Its Aftermath 20
Box A Lakshmibai, Queen of Jhansi: The Only Man of the Indian Mutiny 32
cHAPTER I I I Tilak, Militancy, and Martial Pasts 42
CHAPTER IV Gandhi, Satyagraha, and Non-cooperation 64
cHAPTER v The Salt Satyagraha 80
Box B Making of the Mahatma: A Biography in Prints 96
cHAPTER v I Political Oppression and the Loot of India 110
CHAPTER VII Bhagat Singh and Armed 'Revolutionaries' 128
CHAPTER VIII Freedom and Hindu Mythography 146
Box c Bharat Mata: The Feminine in Politico-Religious Iconography 158
cHAPTER Ix The Congress, Sub has Bose, and Sacrifice for the Nation 172
CHAPTER x Sunset of the Raj: Political Developments, 1942-47 194
BOX D Kalpataru: The Freedom Tree 222
CHAPTER x I Free but Partitioned: Independence,
Gandhi's Assassination, and the Future of India 226
Further Reading 246
Notes 248
List of Illustrations 253
Index 257
Credits 260