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University of Massachusetts Boston

History Faculty Publication Series

2010

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Peace In His Time, Ananya Vajpeyi Jul 2010

Peace In His Time, Ananya Vajpeyi

History Faculty Publication Series

A history of India under British rule highlights the significance of Mahatma Gandhi's radical new politics, which transformed the struggle against empire.


Uncharted Territory, Ananya Vajpeyi Mar 2010

Uncharted Territory, Ananya Vajpeyi

History Faculty Publication Series

Srinath Raghavan’s first book, War and Peace in Modern India, follows Guha in terms of both method and period, excavating the archival record to explore five significant domestic and international conflicts that beset India under Nehru.


A Song Unto Itself: How Rabindranath Tagore, Ram Gopal Varma And The Supreme Court Of India Hear The National Anthem, Ananya Vajpeyi Jan 2010

A Song Unto Itself: How Rabindranath Tagore, Ram Gopal Varma And The Supreme Court Of India Hear The National Anthem, Ananya Vajpeyi

History Faculty Publication Series

Every Indian schoolchild knows - or ought to know that Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941), India’s “national poet”, wrote our national anthem Jana gana mana. The song, 52 seconds long in the singing, was first presented by Tagore to a session of the Indian National Congress in Calcutta in 1911; in 1919 it was taken up by Principal James Cousins of the Theosophical College, Madanapalle, in South India, as a college prayer that he called the “Morning Song of India”. The song was debated throughout the 30s and 40s on a variety of occasions, attracting both support and criticism. In January …