Select British Home Department Intelligence Report on Indian Nationalist Revolutionary Activities ( 1907-1936).
This book is edited by Ashoke Kumar Mukhopadhyay.
About the book:
The book presents an account of nationalist revolutionary activities during three decades from 1907, as recorded by the Home Department of British India.
Stung by ' terrorist activities,' the then Home department, for the benefit of senior officials in the administration , had published a number of secret political reports of which two publications — Political Trouble in India (1907-1917) and terrorism in India ( 1917-1936) — are of great importance. While the Political Trouble in India (1907-1917) is the source book of the famous 'Sedition Committee Report', prepared by the British, the second compilation, i.e. Terrorism in India( 1917-1936) is also of considerable importance, for the same was " intended to assist those, mainly police officers, whose duties require them to make a detailed study of the whole or portions of the past history of Terrorism."
The 'Introduction' traces the origins and development of 'terrorist movements' in India along with a brief summary of 'revolutionary activities' in various phases from 1897.
