India and the Commonwealth 1885¿1929 av S. R. Mehrotra

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<P>The story of the transformation of the old British Empire into the modern Commonwealth had often been told from the point of view of Great Britain and the ¿white dominions¿. No attempt had so far been made to describe the decisive role of India in the shaping of the multi-racial Commonwealth of today. Originally published in 1965, the main theme of this work by an Indian author is the growth of the idea of Commonwealth in India from 1885, the year in which the Indian National Congress was organized, to 1929, when Congress declared ¿complete independence¿ to be its goal. What did the British Empire mean to early Indian nationalists? How did the ideal of self-government of India on the Dominion model grow? What was India¿s continued association with the Commonwealth valued in India and in Britain? Answers to these and similar questions are attempted in this book.</P><P>Despite its great importance, the role of India in the Commonwealth in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries h