The SAGE Series in Modern Indian History consists of well-researched volumes with a wider scope and is intended to bring together the growing volume of historical studies that share a broad common historiographic focus. The approach that the authors have tried to evolve looks sympathetically, though critically, at the Indian national liberation struggle and other popular movements such as those of labour, peasants, lower castes, tribal peoples and women. The series also looks at colonialism as a structure and a system, and analyzes changes in economy, society and culture in the colonial context as also in the context of independent India. It focuses on communalism and casteism as major features of modern Indian development. The volumes in the series will tend to reflect this approach as also its changing and developing features. At the broadest plane this approach is committed to the Enlightenment values of rationalism, humanism, democracy and secularism.
This set includes:
Volume 1: Independence and Partition: The Erosion of Colonial Power in India by Sucheta Mahajan
Volume 2: A Narrative of Communal Politics: Uttar Pradesh, 1937-39 by Salil Misra
Volume 3: Imperialism, Nationalism and the Making of the Indian Capitalist Class, 1920-1947 by Aditya Mukherjee
Volume 4: From Movement to Government: The Congress in the United Provinces, 1937-42 by Visalakshi Menon
Volume 5: Peasants in India's Non-Violent Revolution: Practice and Theory by Mridula Mukherjee
Volume 6: Communalism in Bengal: From Famine to Noakhali, 1943-47 by Rakesh Batabyal
Volume 7: Political Mobilization and Identity in Western India, 1934-47 by Shri Krishan
Volume 8: The Garrison State: Military, Government and Society in Colonial Punjab, 1849-1947 by Tan Tai Yong
Volume 9: Colonializing Agriculture: The Myth of Punjab Exceptionalism by Mridula Mukherjee
Volume 10: Region, Nation, "Heartland" Uttar Pradesh in India's Body-Politic by Gyanesh Kudaisya
Volume 11: National Movement and Politics in Orissa, 1920-29 by Pritish Acharya
Volume 12: Communism and Nationalism in Colonial India, 1939-45 by D N Gupta
Volume 13: Vocalising Silence: Political Protests in Orissa, 1930-32 by Chandi Prasad Nanda
Volume 14: Nandanar's Children: The Paraiyans' Tryst with Destiny, Tamil Nadu 1850-1956 by Raj Sekhar Basu
Volume 15: Enlightenment and Violence: Modernity and Nation-Making by Tadd Fern�e
Mukherjee, Aditya: -
Aditya Mukherjee is Professor of Contemporary Indian History, Centre for Historical Studies and Dean, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi. He was educated at St. Stephen's College and JNU. He is the Editor of the 'Sage Series in Modern Indian History' published by SAGE publications, (fifteen monographs already published) and was editor of the Selected Works of Jawaharlal Nehru (2009-11).He is Member of the Council of The Indian Council for Historical Research (ICHR) since 2009.He specializes in Economic History, particularly business history and the political economy of post-colonial development. He was President of the Indian History Congress for Modern India, 2007-8. He has been Visiting Professor at Duke University, U.S.A., 1986;JSPS fellow and Japan Foundation Fellow at University of Tokyo, Japan,1996 and 1999-2000 respectively;Visiting fellow at the Institutes of Advanced Study at Lancaster, UK and at the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil; Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Study at Nantes, France, 2010 and Visiting professor at La Sapienza, University of Rome, Italy, 2013. His publications include the following books India′s Struggle for Independence, Viking, 1988, Penguin, 1989, 58th reprint in 2014, and India Since Independence, Penguin, 2008, both co-authored and translated into five languages;Imperialism, Nationalism and the Making of the Indian CapitalistClass 1927-1947, Sage, 2002;RSS, School Texts and The Murder of Mahatma Gandhi: The Hindu Communal Project, Sage, 2008, co-author; A Centenary History of the Indian National Congress, 1964-1984, Vol.V, (editor), Academic Publishers, New Delhi, 2011.
Mukherjee, Mridula: -
Mridula Mukherjee is currently Professor of Modern Indian History and Chairperson of the Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Professor Mukherjee has been Visiting Scholar at Duke University, USA, and at the Institute of Oriental Culture, University of Tokyo. She has also been Chairperson of the Archives on Contemporary History at Jawaharlal Nehru University. She has published widely in the areas of agrarian history, peasant movements, social movements and the Indian national movement. Her publications include India's Struggle for Independence (1999) and India After Independence 1947-2000 (2000), both co-authored.
