Study Guide · Chapter 4
Modern Indian Literature and Nationalist Writing
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| Book | Author | Significance |
|---|---|---|
| Anandamath | Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay | Novel containing "Vande Mataram" |
| Poverty and Un-British Rule in India | Dadabhai Naoroji | "Drain of Wealth" theory |
| The Indian War of Independence 1857 | V.D. Savarkar | Reframes 1857 as a war of independence |
| Hind Swaraj | Mahatma Gandhi | Gandhi's foundational text on self-rule and civilisation critique |
| The Story of My Experiments with Truth | Mahatma Gandhi | Autobiography |
| The Discovery of India | Jawaharlal Nehru | Written in Ahmednagar Fort prison |
| Glimpses of World History | Jawaharlal Nehru | Letters to his daughter Indira, written from prison |
| An Autobiography (Toward Freedom) | Jawaharlal Nehru | Nehru's autobiography |
| India Wins Freedom | Maulana Abul Kalam Azad | Memoir on the independence and partition process |
| The Indian Struggle | Subhas Chandra Bose | Political memoir |
| Annihilation of Caste | B.R. Ambedkar | Critique of the caste system |
| Gitanjali | Rabindranath Tagore | Poetry collection; won the 1913 Nobel Prize in Literature |
| Godaan, Gaban | Munshi Premchand | Hindi social-realist novels |
| Satyarth Prakash | Swami Dayanand Saraswati | (see above) |
| Kitab-ul-Hind / and modern histories | Various | — |
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