Post-Independence Indian History

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Post-Independence Indian History

1. Consolidation as a Nation

Nehru’s Foreign Policy

India and her neighbours (1947-1964)

The linguistic reorganisation of States (1935-1947)

Regionalism and regional inequality

Integration of Princely States

Princes in electoral politics

Question of National Language

2. Caste and Ethnicity after 1947

Backward castes in postcolonial electoral politics

Tribes in post-colonial electoral politics

Dalit movements

3. Economic development and political Change

Land reforms

The politics of planning and rural reconstruction

Ecology and environmental policy in post – colonial India

Progress of science