Rook-Koepsel, Emily2017-11-272017-11-272010-08https://hdl.handle.net/11299/191456University of Minnesota Ph.D. dissertation. August 2010. Major: History. Advisor: Ajay Skaria. 1 computer file (PDF); iv, 267 pages.My dissertation investigates the meaning of the naming strategy 'All India' in defining nationalist politics in India in the 1940s and early 1950s. In it I consider how four organizations, All India Radio, the All India Newspaper Editors' Conference, All India Women's Conference, and the All India Progressive Writers' Association, defined their "All India" commitments during this period.enAll IndiaDemocracyUnityThesis or Dissertation