Nationalist Politics and Popular Movements : 1939-1947 provides a comprehensive account of the Mainstream Nationalist Politics and other associated movements during the most decisive phase of India’s struggle fro freedom. It weaves the anti-colonial movement under the leadership of Gandhi and his ideology of non-violence and describes how it development a close relationship with other associated movements whose policies and programmes clashed the Gandhian methods at certain stages. These clashes, at times, gave rise to dramatic developments. Some of these developments have been dealt in this book in their proper contexts, analyzed with scholarly objectivity and supported by primary sources.