Modern Indian History

1937 elections, Congress ministries and the Bose crisis 1936-39

• 1937 provincial elections, office acceptance debate, Congress ministries in seven then eight provinces, League's poor showing
• Civil liberties, tenancy laws, prohibition, education and Harijan measures; limits within the 1935 Act
• Haripura tripuri and forward bloc
• Ministries resign October to November 1939 because India was made a party to the war without consultation and the demand for a post-war constituent assembly was refused
• Gandhi and Bose compared: swaraj, state power, socialism, industry, education, militarism and social reform
• Congress anti-imperialist internationalism in the 1930s: China, the Indian Medical Mission and solidarity against fascism