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‘India Since Independence’  is a course designed to make the students aware about the trajectories of India’s socio, economic and political journey since its emergence as an independent nation. India achieved its independence from the clutches of British colonial forces on 15th August 1947, and it became a republic by virtue of adopting a constitution on 26th January 1950. Since then the political leadership of the country, social activists and social reformers, scientists, artists, peasants, laborers and common citizens across the breadth and length of India’ s social and cultural landscape have payed their role in making India — what it is, how it stands today. So, ‘India Since Independence’ is an attempt by current generation to understand the complexity, challenges and pressures against which different leaderships (political and social) have struggled to build a nation.
To understand such a complex trajectory of India resilient fight of nation building it’s important to understand different eras of national leadership. As, national leaderships have largely been influential in shaping up the domestic economic policies, the developmental framework and Indian foreign policy in general. Therefore, in order to understand different shades of Indian socio, economic and political history and Indian foreign policy since Independence the course has been divided into topics that deal with different domestic, socio-economic and political issues and events during particular leadership (central government).