From Plassey to Partition - A History of Modern India

From Plassey to Partition is an eminently readable account of the emergence of India as a nation. It covers about two hundred years of political and socio-economic turbulence. Of particular interest to the contemporary reader will be sections such as 'Early Nationalism: Discontent and Dissension', 'Many Voices of a Nation' and 'Freedom with Partition'. On the one hand, it converses with students of Indian history and on the other, it engages general and curious readers. Few books on this crucial period of history have captured the rhythms of India's polyphonic nationalism as From Plassey to Partition.About the AuthorSekhar Bandyopadhyay is a professor of Asian History at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. He is also the Director of New Zealand India Research Institute. His research interests include history of nationalism. Bandyopadhyay has written Decolonization in South Asia and Caste, Protest and Identity in Colonial India. He is a fellow of the New Zealand Academy of Humanities, as well as the Royal Society of New Zealand. He became the recipient of the Marsden grant in 2011. He has been a Visiting Senior Research Fellow at the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore.