| General Resources
http://www.itihaas.com/modern/index.html
50 years of Independence
(Itihaas)
http://www.indiagov.org/culture/history/history8.htm
The
Struggle for Independence from Discover India, the official Indian website
http://www.harappa.com/wall/wall.html
A Wall of Movies wtih
many newsclips and interviews related to India's independence
http://www.lib.umn.edu/ames-bin/randtxt.pl/stereosc.html
Armchair
Travel in India c1900: the Stereoscopic Experience with many photos
http://www.historyofindia.com/quit-ind.html
quick look at
the movement to end British rule in Asia
http://www.historyofindia.com/independ.html
brief history
of India's independence
http://www.historyofindia.com/natmove.html
National movement
for independence
http://www.harappa.com/abida/abida1.html
http://www.harappa.com/abida/abidatext.html
interview with Princess Abida Sultaan, who talks about Jinnah, Mountbatten,
Ghandi, Naidu, among others
Check out your topic on a general reference site as well:
http://encarta.msn.com
http://www.britannica.com/
Mahatma Gandhi
Gandhi Institute
http://www.gandhiinstitute.org/
http://more.abcnews.go.com/sections/world/gandhi_0128/
"Gandhi's
Legacy of Nonviolence" by A. Adam Glenn -- an ABC News Feature
http://www.nytimes.com/partners/aol/special/india/300119gandhi-profile.html
A
Times
newspaper article that discusses Gandhi and India's struggle for independence
http://www.gandhiserve.com/
Resource center for nonviolence
http://www.indiagov.org/Gandhi/intro.htm
Mahatma Gandhi:
A Retrospective
http://www.indiawatch.org.in/bombaymuseum/ahimsa/index2.html
excerpt
from Gandhi in Young India, 11.8.1920
http://www.itihaas.com/modern/gandhi-profile.html
profile
of Gandhi and his contribution to movement
http://www.rediff.com/freedom/gandhi.htm
"Mission with the
Mahatma" vivid account of Gandhi's march for amity.
http://www.historyofindia.com/gandhi.html
Gandhi's place
in the independence movement
http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/archive/walden/gandhi3.shtml
Questions
Gandhi's influence and how it affected the movement of independence.
Jawaharlal Nehru
http://www.itihaas.com/modern/nehru-profile.html
profile
and history of his involvement in the independence movement
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1947nehru1.html
Nehru's
speech on independence
http://www.harappa.com/sounds/nehru.html
"Tryst with Destiny"
Speech
http://www.nytimes.com/partners/aol/special/india/640528nehru-tribute.html
A
Times newspaper article that presents a look at Nehru's part in the Independence
movement
Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose
http://www.itihaas.com/modern/subhash-profile.html
profile
of Bose as a militant leader
http://www.bengalonthenet.com/celeb_profile/subhash_chandra_bose.htm
brief
profile
http://bengalonline.sitemarvel.com/login.asp?bengali-greats.html
offers
much information Bose as the "true leader of free India"
http://www.geocities.com/~prithvi/netaji.html
offers valuable
photos
http://www.rediff.com/freedom/ina.htm
looks back at INA since
Bose's death
http://www.tamilnation.org/ideology/bose.htm
Extensive site
on Bose - side bars have good sites, also
Mohammad Ali Jinnah
http://www.pak.gov.pk/public/govt/quaid.htm
Pakistan's official
site with history and information about Jinnah, the Father of the nation
http://www.harappa.com/sounds/jinnah.html
speech on establishment
of Pakistan
http://www.pak.gov.pk/public/23rd_march/presential_address.htm
Address
by Jinnah at Lahore Session of Muslim League, March, 1940
http://www.pak.gov.pk/public/23rd_march/chronology.htm
Timeline
on the Establishment of Pakistan
British Official
http://metalab.unc.edu/pha/policy/1942/420311a.html
Churchill's
address about India's independence movement
http://www.time.com/time/time100/leaders/profile/churchill3.html
short
portion of Churchill's life with indications of where he stood on India's
independence
http://www.rediff.com/freedom/13allan1.htm
reflections of
Mountbatten's press attache on the partition
http://history1900s.about.com/education/history1900s/library/weekly/aa080997.htm?iam=dp&terms=Mohammed+Iqbal
article
about Britain and the Hindu-Muslim conflict
http://www.historyofindia.com/britrule.html
great for the
British impact
http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/southasia/History/British/BrIndia.html
British
involvement in India
Sarojini Naidu
http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/users/sawweb/sawnet/books_bios.html#sarojini_naidu
(biography
with some links)
http://www.indiaworld.co.in/open/rec/poetry/bio-saroj.html
bio
and poems of naidu
http://www.rediff.com/freedom/19let1.htm
series of letters
(go through them all!) from Naidu to various correspondents
Hindu-Muslim Conflict
check also Jinnah sites (above)
http://www.rediff.com/freedom/iqbal.htm
article about Mohammed
Iqbal and the Hindu-Muslim conflict that lead to the establishment of Pakistan
http://history1900s.about.com/education/history1900s/library/weekly/aa080997.htm?iam=dp&terms=Mohammed+Iqbal
article
about Britain and the Hindu-Muslim conflict
Economic Impact of Imperialism and Conflict
Check also "British Official" sites (above)
http://www.snu.edu/syllabi/history/s97projects/india/economy.htm
economic
information relating to the British occupancy
http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/southasia/History/mainhist.html
general
site touching on most areas
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