Nehru - Benjamin Zachariah

again – a suggestion that seemed to hurt Gandhi. It was not only Jawaharlal who was beginning to feel increasingly frustrated an ...

The Round Table Conferences confirmed what they had been set up to confirm – that Indians could not agree amongst themselves. In ...

JAIL AGAIN, AND A EUROPEAN INTERLUDE: KAMALA’S DEATH By the end of 1931, Jawaharlal was behind bars again, arrested on December ...

for evidence that could help them put him back in prison they eventually found something useful. In his speech to the AITUC at K ...

had their lives inextricably intertwined, and in which so many of their memories and personal experiences were deeply embedded, ...

struggle’ on his return to India (Dover himself was a Eurasian, or an ‘Anglo-Indian’ as the revised and more polite terminology ...

them in a central chamber alongside democratically elected members and refused to accept them, so the Centre continued to be bas ...

I earnestly hope that you will fully utilise the strength of your public position in making decisions. Please do not consider yo ...

The CSP as it was constituted in 1934 already contained Marxist and non-Marxist, even anti-Marxist, socialists. Its most influen ...

light of the USSR’s immunity to the economic disasters the Depression had brought to the rest of the world, played a large role ...

politically committed ‘socialist’ one. Jawaharlal’s juggling of the mutually entangled roles of ‘modernist’ and ‘socialist’ left ...

Book Club, one of his initiatives (modelled on the Left Book Club in Britain, of which he was a member), proposed to provide ‘so ...

could live with Nehru in a leadership position. Meanwhile, the British could always be relied upon to provide unifying issues of ...

left, and against socialists and communists outside the Congress. Birla had powerful spokesmen within the Congress in men like V ...

THE STRUGGLE FOR THE CONGRESS: ‘WRECKING’ THE CONSTITUTION OR RUNNING THE EMPIRE? One of the first tasks of the new left coaliti ...

persecute and arrest socialists – Rajagopalachari’s ministry in Madras was notable in this regard. The CSP-affiliated organisati ...

made it clear that such thinking was detrimental to the democratic principles for which the national movement ought to stand. It ...

owning elites, had been granted a foothold, forming a government in coalition with the KPP. (In all, the League won only 109 of ...

act together. This would defeat British divide and rule strategies as well as attempts by Indian vested interests to exploit the ...

masses who were not yet Congress supporters. Muslim mass contact, in particular, was to be a central concern. This provoked a de ...