Volume 47 Issue 9 September 1997

Jean Alphonse Bernard considers the two key provinces and how they became touchstones and then powderkegs in the nationalist aspirations of both sides.

Partha Mitter looks at how tensions and cultural interchange between Indians and Britons are conveyed in the imagery of the colonial period.

Judith Brown assesses the curious coupling of Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru that achieved much – but not all – for Hindu aspirations.

Introductory chronology for this special commemorative issue marking 50 years since Britain relinquished colonial rule in the Indian subcontinent.