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Tribes of India: the first peoples caught between forest and development

104 million Indians, 700+ groups, one constitutional shield, the story of tribal India, from PVTGs to the displacement-rehabilitation trap.

Twenty-Eight Months of Power: India's First Rehearsal for Self-Rule

In 1937 the Congress stopped demanding power and started using it, 28 months of ministries, tenancy laws and prohibition, ended by a war India never agreed to join. India's first rehearsal for self-rule.

Swadeshi 1905: Boycott, Bande Mataram, and India's First Mass Classroom

For three years Bengal tried to live without Britain, boycotting Manchester cloth, building Indian mills and national schools. The Swadeshi movement was India's first mass classroom, and its laboratory for everything Gandhi later used.