Modern history

Concepts to cover

1. 1937 provincial elections, office acceptance debate, Congress ministries in seven then eight provinces, League's poor showing
2. Civil liberties, tenancy laws, prohibition, education and Harijan measures; limits within the 1935 Act
3. Haripura 1938 and National Planning Committee; Tripuri 1939 Bose defeats Sitaramayya, Pant resolution, Bose resigns; Forward Bloc May 1939 after Gandhi's distrust and the disunited Congress Left (CSP, Roy's group, communists) preferred unity to Bose
4. 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
5. Gandhi and Bose compared: swaraj, state power, socialism, industry, education, militarism and social reform
6. Congress anti-imperialist internationalism in the 1930s: China, the Indian Medical Mission and solidarity against fascism