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PDF \u0013 HYPERLINK \"https://archive.org/download/in.ernet.dli.2015.97555/2015.97555.A-History-Of-The-Indian-Liberal-Party.pdf\" \u0014here\u0015. RTF \u0013 HYPERLINK \"http://sanjeev.sabhlokcity.com/Misc/\" \u0014here\u0015.\nA History of the Indian Liberal Party\nBY Dr. B. D. SHUKLA, M.A., Ph.D., Professor and Head of the Department of History, TY S S D. College, Kanpur\nTHE INDIAN PRESS, ALLAHABAD, 1960\nContents\n\u0013 TOC \\o \"1-3\" \\h \\z \\u \u0014\u0013 HYPERLINK \\l \"_Toc3030629\" \u0014FOREWORD\t\u0013 PAGEREF _Toc3030629 \\h \u00141\u0015\u0015\n\u0013 HYPERLINK \\l \"_Toc3030630\" \u0014PREFACE\t\u0013 PAGEREF _Toc3030630 \\h \u00143\u0015\u0015\n\u0013 HYPERLINK \\l \"_Toc3030631\" \u0014CHAPTER I: INTRODUCTION\t\u0013 PAGEREF _Toc3030631 \\h \u00145\u0015\u0015\n\u0013 HYPERLINK \\l \"_Toc3030632\" \u0014Evolution of Modern Liberalism and its Creed:\t\u0013 PAGEREF _Toc3030632 \\h \u00145\u0015\u0015\n\u0013 HYPERLINK \\l \"_Toc3030633\" \u0014LIBERALISM IN THE 19TH CENTURY—The Industrial Revolution:\t\u0013 PAGEREF _Toc3030633 \\h \u001411\u0015\u0015\n\u0013 HYPERLINK \\l \"_Toc3030634\" \u0014CHAPTER II: THE GENESIS OF INDIAN LIBERALISM\t\u0013 PAGEREF _Toc3030634 \\h \u001421\u0015\u0015\n\u0013 HYPERLINK \\l \"_Toc3030635\" \u0014Raja Rum Mohan Roy & the Pioneers\t\u0013 PAGEREF _Toc3030635 \\h \u001421\u0015\u0015\n\u0013 HYPERLINK \\l \"_Toc3030636\" \u0014CHAPTER III : ‘THE GROWTH OF THE NATIONAL LIBERAL MOVEMENT AND THE FORMATIVE INFLUENCES\t\u0013 PAGEREF _Toc3030636 \\h \u001438\u0015\u0015\n\u0013 HYPERLINK \\l \"_Toc3030637\" \u0014CHAPTER IV: THE FIRST PHASE OF INDIAN LIBERALISM AND ITS CIL1RACITRISTIC FEATITRES\t\u0013 PAGEREF _Toc3030637 \\h \u001457\u0015\u0015\n\u0013 HYPERLINK \\l \"_Toc3030638\" \u0014CHAPTER V: INDIAN LIBERALS IN THE CURZON ERA—THE SURAT ‘SPLIT’\t\u0013 PAGEREF _Toc3030638 \\h \u001479\u0015\u0015\n\u0013 HYPERLINK \\l \"_Toc3030639\" \u0014CHAPTER VI: THE MO R LEV-M INTO AND MONT FORD REFORMS AND THE FOUNDATION OF ‘THE ALL INDIA NATIONAL LIBERAL FEDERATION\t\u0013 PAGEREF _Toc3030639 \\h \u001499\u0015\u0015\n\u0013 HYPERLINK \\l \"_Toc3030640\" \u0014CHAPTER VII: THE LIBERAL MINISTRIES AT WORK\t\u0013 PAGEREF _Toc3030640 \\h \u0014126\u0015\u0015\n\u0013 HYPERLINK \\l \"_Toc3030641\" \u0014CHAPTER VIII: INDIAN LIBERALS AND THE GANDHIAN CONGRESS\t\u0013 PAGEREF _Toc3030641 \\h \u0014148\u0015\u0015\n\u0013 HYPERLINK \\l \"_Toc3030642\" \u0014CHAPTER IX: THE INDIAN LIBERAL PARTY (1923-47)\t\u0013 PAGEREF _Toc3030642 \\h \u0014176\u0015\u0015\n\u0013 HYPERLINK \\l \"_Toc3030643\" \u0014CHAPTER X: LIBERAL ACHIEVEMENTS AND FAILURES\t\u0013 PAGEREF _Toc3030643 \\h \u0014233\u0015\u0015\n\u0013 HYPERLINK \\l \"_Toc3030644\" \u0014CHAPTER XI: SOME LIBERAL LEADERS & THEIR ACHIEVEMENTS\t\u0013 PAGEREF _Toc3030644 \\h \u0014248\u0015\u0015\n\u0013 HYPERLINK \\l \"_Toc3030645\" \u0014CHAPTER XII: EPILOGUE: SOME THOUGHTS ON THE FUTURE OF INDIAN AND WORLD LIBERALISM\t\u0013 PAGEREF _Toc3030645 \\h \u0014265\u0015\u0015\n\u0013 HYPERLINK \\l \"_Toc3030646\" \u0014APPENDIX I: THE LIBERAL PRESS IN INDIA\t\u0013 PAGEREF _Toc3030646 \\h \u0014276\u0015\u0015\n\u0013 HYPERLINK \\l \"_Toc3030647\" \u0014APPENDIX II: CONSTITUTION OF THE NATIONAL LIBERAL FEDERATION OF INDIA\t\u0013 PAGEREF _Toc3030647 \\h \u0014298\u0015\u0015\n\u0015\nFOREWORD\nDr. B. D. Shukla, M.A., Ph.D., has done me the honour of asking me to write a foreword to this work, which is a revised version of his thesis for the Ph.D. degree of the Agra University. I do so with particular pleasure because it seems to me that political piety clamours for a due recognition of the national services of the Indian “Moderates” or Liberals which Dr. Shukla has attempted in this work.\nI am sure that discerning readers will find Dr. Shukla’s work to be a valuable addition to the extant literature on the political history of India during the period under survey in the work. So far as I am aware, no integrated account of the origins of Indian Liberalism, their ideology, their contributions to the political thinking and activity of the period has been attempted before hint. There are of course scores of works—monographs, biographies, collections of speeches and writings of the “moderate” leaders, and constitutional histories. But Dr. Shukla has concentrated on the work of the Indian Liberals as a group of political workers, and has, in my humble opinion, made a fair and just assessment of their services to the nation. I have no doubt that no student of the political history of the period can afford to ignore the work even though he might differ from any of Dr. Shukla’s conclusions.\nThe importance of the Liberal contribution to free India’s cons","cbCaif63EbOW162r","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaif63EbOW162r","docx",430923,319,"English","# FOREWORD\n# PREFACE\n# Contents Overview\n## CHAPTER I: INTRODUCTION\n## CHAPTER II: THE GENESIS OF INDIAN LIBERALISM\n## CHAPTER III: ‘THE GROWTH OF THE NATIONAL LIBERAL MOVEMENT AND THE FORMATIVE INFLUENCES\n## CHAPTER IV: THE FIRST PHASE OF INDIAN LIBERALISM AND ITS CHARACTERISTIC FEATURES\n## CHAPTER V: INDIAN LIBERALS IN THE CURZON ERA—THE SURAT ‘SPLIT’\n## CHAPTER VI: THE MORLEY-MINTO AND MONTFORD REFORMS AND THE FOUNDATION OF ‘THE ALL INDIA NATIONAL LIBERAL FEDERATION’\n## CHAPTER VII: THE LIBERAL MINISTRIES AT WORK\n## CHAPTER VIII: INDIAN LIBERALS AND THE GANDHIAN CONGRESS\n## CHAPTER IX: THE INDIAN LIBERAL PARTY (1923-47)\n## CHAPTER X: LIBERAL ACHIEVEMENTS AND FAILURES\n## CHAPTER XI: SOME LIBERAL LEADERS & THEIR ACHIEVEMENTS\n## CHAPTER XII: EPILOGUE: SOME THOUGHTS ON THE FUTURE OF INDIAN AND WORLD LIBERALISM\n## APPENDIX I: THE LIBERAL PRESS IN INDIA\n## APPENDIX II: CONSTITUTION OF THE NATIONAL LIBERAL FEDERATION OF INDIA","[{\"question\":\"What is the purpose of the foreword in this book?\",\"answer\":\"The foreword argues for recognizing the national services of the Indian “Moderates” or Liberals and frames the work as a valuable contribution to political history. 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