2. | |  EARLY NATIONALISTIC ACTIVITIES 1 INDIANS REALISE COLONIAL DISCRIMINATION 2 DEMAND FOR INCREASE IN INDIAN REPRESENTATION  EXTREMIST NATIONALIST PHASE  GHADAR AND THE HOME RULE MOVEMENT  COMING OF GANDHI AND THE NON-COOPERATION MOVEMENT 1 GANDHI AND PEASANTRY 2 PROTEST AGAINST THE ROWLETT ACT 3 NON-COOPERATION MOVEMENT  RISE OF THE PEASANTRY, WORKING CLASSES AND THE LEFT 1 GANDHI- AMBEDKAR DEBATE 2 ARRIVAL OF MARXISM 3 GROWTH OF COMMUNALISM

3. | |  CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE MOVEMENT AND ITS AFTERMATH 1 THE SIMON COMMISITION 2 CIVIL DISOBEDIENT MOVEMENT  THE WAR AND THE QUIET INDIA MOVEMENT  POST WAR UPSURGE 1 THE INDIAN NATIONAL ARMY  COMMUNIAL RIOTS, INDEPENDENCE AND PARTITION

4. | |  The Meaning of Constitutional Government  The Roots of the Constituent Assembly of India  The Cabinet Mission Plan (1) A Constituent Assembly (2) The Federal Formula (3) A Three- Tier Federation (4) An Odd Procedure (5) No Way Out of a Group  The “Grouping” Controversy  Composition of the proposed Constituent Assembly

5. | |  An Interim Government  The Constituent Assembly and Partition  Parties in the Constituent Assembly (1) Congress Dominance (2) Leadership of the Constituent Assembly (3) The Opposition in the Constituent Assembly (4) The Fence –Sitters  Work of the Constituent Assembly  Status of the Constituent Assembly

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