[PDF] Indian Political Trials 1775 1947 eBook

Author : Abdul Gafoor Abdul Majeed Noorani
Publisher : New Delhi : Sterling Publishers, [pref. 1976]
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 41,10 MB
Release : 1976
Category : Trials (Political crimes and offenses)
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On some famous political trails conducted during the period 1857-1947.

Author : Abdul Gafoor Abdul Majeed Noorani
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 27,24 MB
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN :

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The Book Examines 12 Significant Political Trials In Indian History From The Early Colonial Era To The Birth Of Free India-Maharaja Nanda Kumar, Zafar, Tilak, Aurobindo, Shankaracharya, Ali Brothers, Gandhi, Sheikh Abdullah To Judicial Decisions That Became Turning Points In India`S Past.

Author : Supreme Court of India
Publisher : Publications Division Ministry of Information & Broadcasting
Page : 1030 pages
File Size : 16,42 MB
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Category : History
ISBN : 9354091237

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This book is written by eminent judges, advocates and legal luminaries among others under the expert guidance of an Editorial Board constituted by the Supreme Court. It is an attempt to trace the historical evolution of courts in India. The book attempts to identify the diverse court systems prevalent in India, map its historical origins and contextualize the present system of courts.

Author : Rijul Singh Uppal
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 33,70 MB
Release : 2024-06-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 104003845X

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The liberal use of the sedition law in recent years, mainly by state governments intolerant of dissenting opinion, has provoked justified controversy. After some prominent individuals fell afoul of the law, activists, journalists, lawyers, and jurists took up cudgels on behalf of the victims, and demanded that the law be scrapped, as it belongs to the colonial era. The Supreme Court of India, in May 2022, admitted a host of petitions challenging the law as upheld in Kedar Nath Singh vs Union of India, 1961. The author believes that the fundamental right to free speech is a non-negotiable right in a democratic country, but the law is relevant for countering threats to national security and sovereignty. Examining the trajectory of the sedition law from its introduction by the British colonial power and its subsequent rejection by the Constituent Assembly of India, the author observes that the statute had to be hastily restored by the Provisional Parliament to cope with the challenges posed by communal rioting in many parts of the country, several years after independence. As such, it is pertinent in times of crisis. The current law undeniably needs safeguards against political misuse, but deserves a place on the statute. Print edition not for sale in South Asia (India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bangladesh, Pakistan and Bhutan)

Author : Mrinalini Sinha
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 10,84 MB
Release : 2022-01-13
Category : History
ISBN : 135023978X

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This volume reconsiders India's 20th century though a specific focus on the concepts, conjunctures and currency of its distinct political imaginaries. Spanning the divide between independence and partition, it highlights recent historical debates that have sought to move away from a nation-centred mode of political history to a broader history of politics that considers the complex contexts within which different political imaginaries emerged in 20th century India. Representing the first attempt to grasp the shifting modes and meanings of the 'political' in India, this book explores forms of mass protest, radical women's politics, civil rights, democracy, national wealth and mobilization against the indentured-labor system, amongst other themes. In linking 'the political' to shifts in historical temporality, Political Imaginaries in 20th century India extends beyond the interdisciplinary arena of South Asian studies to cognate late colonial and post-colonial formations in the twentieth century and contribute to the 'political turn' in scholarship.

Author : Abdul Gafoor Abdul Majeed Noorani
Publisher : Hurst & Company
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 18,14 MB
Release : 2014
Category : History
ISBN : 9781849044394

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The fascinating story of the fall of the Indian princely state of Hyderabad has till now been dominated by the 'court historians' of Indian nationalism. In this book A. G. Noorani offers a revisionist account of the Indian Army's 'police action' against the armed forces and government of Hyderabad, ruled by the fabulously wealthy Nizam. His forensic scrutiny of the diplomatic exchanges between the government of India and the government of Hyderabad during the Raj and after partition and independence in 1947 has unearthed the Sunderlal Committee report on the massacre of the Muslim population of the State during and after the 'police action' (knowledge of which has since been suppressed by the Indian state) and a wealth of memoirs and first- hand accounts of the clandestine workings of territorial nationalism in its bleakest and most shameful hour. He brings to light the largely ignored and fateful intervention of M. A. Jinnah in the destruction of Hyderabad and also ac- counts for the communal leanings of Patel and K. M. Munshi in shaping its fate. The book is dedicated to the 'other' Hyderabad: a culturally syncretic state that was erased in the stampede to create a united India committed to secularism and development.

Author : Michele L. Louro
Publisher : Global and International Histo
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 17,72 MB
Release : 2018-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1108419305

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Examines the emergence of anti-imperialist internationalism during the interwar years from the perspective of India's first Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru.

Author : Rakesh Ankit
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 39,26 MB
Release : 2018-12-13
Category : History
ISBN : 0199095604

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India’s interim government, in office from 2 September 1946 till August 1947, was a unique coalition of the Indian National Congress, All-India Muslim League, and non-Congress and non-League political figures—all presiding over a British/British-trained state apparatus during a period of political transition. These eleven months were packed as much with the events surrounding the formal exit of the empire as its informal continuance; as much with the anticipation of Partition as its alternatives. Though it stands at a juncture of India as a colony and a dominion, it has been overlooked by colonial and postcolonial historiography of that interval, given its sole identification with Partition/Independence. India in the Interregnum moves beneath and beyond this understanding in order to, first, restore identity to the interim government—and its provincial counterparts—and investigate their work, and, second, recover the legacy of the interim government in the formation of contemporary India.

Author : Arundhati Roy
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 40,93 MB
Release : 2016-07-27
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9386057549

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On 13 December 2001, the Indian Parliament was attacked by a few heavily armed men. Eleven years later, we still do not know who was behind the attack, nor the identity of the attackers. Both the Delhi high court and the Supreme Court of India have noted that the police violated legal safeguards, fabricated evidence and extracted false confessions. Yet, on 9 February 2013, one man, Mohammad Afzal Guru, was hanged to ‘satisfy’ the ‘collective conscience’ of society. This updated reader brings together essays by lawyers, academics, journalists and writers who have looked closely at the available facts and who have raised serious questions about the investigations and the trial. This new version examines the implications of Mohammad Afzal Guru’s hanging and what it says about the Indian government’s relationship with Kashmir.