This episode discusses the reform movements led by Islamic leaders and their impact on the national movement. I also discuss why women's issues were key agenda items during this time and the three phases of the women's reform movement in the national conversation. 

This episode covers one of the four threads of reform movements. 

Hindu Reform Movements 
Muslim Reform Movements 
Women Empowerment 
Caste Reform

We discuss the contributions of Raja Ram Mohun Roy, Bankim Chandra Chatterjee, Ramakrishna Paramhansa, and Swami Vivekanands.

In the previous three episodes, we covered the idea of Indian Nationalism,  farmer, and tribal movements as a part of proto-nationalism, and the War of India's Independence of 1857. 

This episode focuses on the Social and Religious reform movement that gave rise to Modern Indian Nationalism and became the root of the rise of the Indian National Congress. We discuss the reasons, limitations, and contributions of this movement to India's nationalism. 

Often tagged as a 'mutiny,' the 1857 uprising was a full-fledged war joined by soldiers, old rulers, farmers, handicrafts, and skilled workers and was widespread across the country, as recent research reveals. This episode focuses on why it is tagged wrongly as a mutiny and the reasons for calling the first Indian war of independence.

In this episode, I discuss the key farmer and tribal revolts and their nature, and their contribution to the rise of Indian nationalism. In addition, I also share examples of revolts led by the displaced landowner groups or rulers who the British government didn't back. 

In this episode, I discuss the rise of Indian Nationalism in response to colonialism. I discuss the key difference between European Nationalism and Indian Nationalism. How these differences make us unique and more complex as a nation and therefore how even after 75 years we are still evolving India's idea of Nationalism.

In this episode, I discuss the strategic and economic importance of India as a colony in the British empire. It resulted in an excessive wealth drain and handicapped the growth of Indian industries. 

In this episode, I discuss how the British crown adopted the approach of placating the farmers in response to the revolt of 1857. This phase also focuses on forming commissions, committees, and changes in the previous land revenue act in response to frequent famines and farmer revolts across different regions of India. Most of these changes were lip service and did not do enough to solve farmer distress. 

In this episode, I share how the 1857 great revolt and the pressure of opening India as a market for British Capital brought about changes in the political strategy. The idea was to establish indirect control while unifying all the territories through administrative changes. 

This episode focuses on the development of Railways by East India Company to support the idea of integrating India's market. We will focus on how the development of Railways led to deindustrialization and ultimately accelerated the drain of wealth. We will also focus on the reason behind the Education Policy under which English education was introduced and its long-term impacts.