Nehru - Benjamin Zachariah

considered moderate enough to do business with later. Those considered terrorists were not so well treated, with their rate of d ...

influential or lucrative posts. Jawaharlal was perhaps merely reading the message of these years when in the 1930s he was deeply ...

connotations. Iqbal, a poet who wrote in Persian and Urdu (or Persianised Hindustani), was following established usage – the ter ...

had been shown to have its limitations. The ‘masses’ were not altogether amenable to the control of their social superiors, and ...

political questions – there was an economic side to consider as well. This was in part a consequence of young urban intellectual ...

against workers’ militancy. Events in business bargaining and factory politics began to convince more and more people who were i ...

3 ‘INEFFECTUAL ANGEL’, 1927–39 The way out of the impasse that was Indian politics in the mid-1920s seemed to be provided by soc ...

to supporting India’s demand for complete independence, and Brockway believed that the ILP’s participation in the League against ...

economic freedom for workers and peasants would not be true freedom. (This was to be a statement echoed in the Communist Party o ...

a newspaper in India, the younger Nehru was enthusiastic: here, poten- tially, was a country that could solve the problems that ...

framework for a state; with this the younger Nehru was in agreement. However, the Report favoured dominion status as a compromis ...

Commission through the country, and consequently the opportunity for the colonial state apparatus to be deployed with some vigou ...

or authors of compromise formulae pointed the finger outwards at British divide and rule tactics with some justification; but al ...

across India, with everyone called upon to take an Independence Pledge; the national flag (at the time, this was the flag of the ...

affiliating the AITUC to the League against Imperialism; he had spent the intervening year publicly denying that the LAI was a c ...

to some of the younger members of Congress. On the other hand, there was a definite fear that Jawaharlal was leading Congress in ...

In February 1930, Gandhi selected his moment, and his issue: salt. This was a non-divisive and emotive issue: the government had ...

Civil disobedience was fuelled and given momentum by the conjunc- tural situation of depression-induced peasant poverty; India w ...

1930s, the Bengal terrorist movement, mirrored by that in the Punjab, was far more disturbing to British officials than Gandhi’s ...

month of spinning in Naini Prison completed today [May 26, 1930]. Have spun 8,520 yards during this period.’^9 Observing events ...