Documentation of the important socio-political developments during the freedom struggle in 1939 TOWARDS FREEDOM - Documents on the Movement for Independence in India, 1939 Part I: Edited by Mushirul Hasan; Oxford University Press, YMCA Library Building, Jai Singh Road, New Delhi-110001. Rs. 3950. Review dated 05/08/2008 This publication on 1939 is a part of the Indian Council of Historical Research's (ICHR) "Towards Freedom" project to correct the perception that India's decolonisation was merely "alteration of constitutional relations." Relying on records available in India and vernacular sources, the project proposes recapturing of Congress-led mainstream nationalism and contemporaneous protest politics - developing either around or parallel to it - which made India's freedom inevitable. Edited by Mushirul Hasan with his remarkable historical hindsight, the volume under review eminently fulfils this mission. http://www.thehindu.com/thehindu/br/2008/08/05/stories/2008080550031400.htm --- Harshawardhan_Bosham Nimkhedkar