🏛️ Flügel History

Volume 4: Colonialism, Freedom Struggle & Nation Building ​

Welcome to Volume IV of Flügel History: Colonialism, Freedom Struggle & Nation Building. This volume details the colonial state apparatus, agrarian extraction, tribal and popular uprisings, the Indian National Congress, revolutionary nationalism, Gandhian mass satyagraha, the tragedy of Partition, and the drafting of the Indian Constitution.

Volume Curriculum Architecture ​

Volume 4 Curriculum Architecture

Chapters in this Volume ​

  1. British Colonial Expansion, Land Settlements & Economic DrainPermanent Settlement (Cornwallis), Ryotwari (Munro), Mahalwari (Mackenzie), de-industrialization, and Dadabhai Naoroji's Drain of Wealth theory.

  2. Tribal Resistances, Peasant Uprisings & The Great Revolt of 1857Santhal Hool, Birsa Munda’s Ulgulan, Indigo Revolt, Causes and outbreak of 1857, Queen’s Proclamation (1858), and Peel Commission army reorganization.

  3. Rise of Modern Nationalism, Moderates vs. Extremists & SwadeshiFormation of INC (1885), Moderate constitutional methods, Curzon's 1905 Partition of Bengal, Swadeshi & Boycott, Surat Split (1907), and Morley-Minto Reforms (1909).

  4. Gandhian Era: Non-Cooperation, Civil Disobedience & Quit IndiaChamparan, Kheda, Rowlatt Satyagraha, Jallianwala Bagh (1919), Khilafat-NCM (1920-22), Dandi Salt March (1930), Poona Pact (1932), and Quit India (1942).

  5. Revolutionary Nationalism, Bhagat Singh, Subhas Chandra Bose & INAAnushilan Samiti, Ghadar Party, HSRA, Bhagat Singh & Batukeshwar Dutt, Surya Sen (Chittagong), Subhas Chandra Bose, Azad Hind Fauj (INA), and 1946 RIN Mutiny.

  6. Communalism, Partition of 1947, Integration of States & ConstitutionCabinet Mission Plan (1946), Mountbatten 3rd June Plan, Radcliffe Boundary Line, Sardar Patel’s integration of 565 Princely States, and Dr. B.R. Ambedkar’s Drafting Committee.

Historiographical Perspectives ​

Synthesizes debates across Nationalist (R.C. Majumdar, Tara Chand), Marxist (R.P. Dutt, Bipan Chandra), Cambridge School (Anil Seal, Gallagher), and Subaltern Studies (Ranajit Guha, Shahid Amin).