Synopsis This reader provides a comprehensive discussion of the pluralist nature of the Indian nation and its struggle for independence. It highlights the different understandings of nationalism in various social groups, classes and regions. The introduction provides a broad historical outline of the Nationalist Movement in the post 1857 period and analyses its various complexities and internal contradictions. This book will be indispensable for students and teachers of modern Indian history at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels. It will also interest researchers, students of political science, and the general reader keen to learn about the Indian Nationalist Movement, arguably the largest mass movement in the history of the modern world.