for independence. It highlights the different understandings ofnationalism in various social groups, classes, and regions. The introductionprovides a broad historical outline of the nationalist movement in thepost-1857 period and analyses its various complexities and internalcontradictions. This book will beindispensable for students and teachers of modem Indian history at theundergraduate and postgraduate levels. It will also interest researchers,students of political science, and the general reader keen to learn about theIndian nationalist movement, arguably the largest mass movement in the historyof the modern world.  About the Author Sekhar Bandyopadhyayis Professor of Asian History, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. Preface This book in variousforms has been in my mind for a long timealmost since I started teachinghistory of Indian nationalist movement more than three decades ago. Over theseyears this field has been enriched by exciting new research, using newmethodological tools and exploring new archives, and stoking new debates ontheory and ideology of nationalism. In my view what has become clear by now isthat Indian nationalism had many faces, as different social groups, classes,and regions responded differently to foreign rule and had differentunderstanding of nationalism. The central aim of this book is to present andhighlight this pluralist nature of the

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