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Non-cooperation and Council Entry, 1919 to 1920
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Gandhi's passive resistance campaigns in South Africa and his satyagraha agitation against the Rowlatt Bills in 1919 were conceived in wholly different circumstances; and the non-cooperation programme of 1920 was designed to meet conditions which were different again this paper.Abstract:
Gandhi's passive resistance campaigns in South Africa and his satyagraha agitation against the Rowlatt Bills in 1919 were conceived in wholly different circumstances; and the non-cooperation programme of 1920 was designed to meet conditions which were different again. To regard the non-cooperation movement simply as the logical consequence of the 1919 satyagraha and as the political application of Gandhi's ideology is to fail to appreciate just how experimental and uncertain Gandhi's politics were during this period.read more
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The Empire Project: The Rise and Fall of the British World-System, 1830-1970
TL;DR: The project of an empire in the long nineteenth century is described in this paper, with a focus on the British World-System in the Age of War, 1914-19, 1919-26, 1927-37, 1937-42 and 1943-51.
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Land acquisition in British India c. 1894-1927
TL;DR: The first law of land acquisition was enacted in 1668, as part of a political settlement by the East India Company with the Portuguese landlords of Bombay island, and to a remarkable degree, land acquisition law was shaped in the interest of the sterling railway companies as mentioned in this paper.
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Religion and Conflict in Modern South Asia
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Hollowing Out the State: Franchise Expansion and Fiscal Capacity in Colonial India
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that political elites may weaken fiscal capacity in anticipation of new groups coming to power in the colonial Indian provinces, where incumbent political elites hollowed out tax capacity in expectation of franchise expansion.
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A Theosophical Garden City: designing household life in Bombay, circa 1924
TL;DR: The Theosophical Garden City as mentioned in this paper was built by Theosophists in the late colonial South Asia to imagine a novel form of suburban living and political community in late colonial India.
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The Indian struggle, 1920-1942.
TL;DR: This article narrated the political upheavals of the inter-war period, further enriched by Netaji's reflections on the key themes of Indian history and a finely etched assessment of Mahatma Gandhi's role in it.
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On the Date of "The Owl and the Nightingale"
TL;DR: Breier as discussed by the authors showed that the C reading of the Cotton MS alone should have warned us against this conclusion since the verb under-wat has the meaning of a present tense and shows that the scribe understood that Henry was still living when the prayer was offered.