Nehru - Benjamin Zachariah

KPP, without clear principles, socialist or communist, and with a lead- ership drawn from the emergent Muslim lower middle class ...

Nehru was now placed in an awkward position: he knew quite clearly that some of the ‘reactionary’ policies he had been writing t ...

conflict.^34 Given Nehru’s own assessment of the record of the Congress ministries, it is difficult to take his statement on the ...

world, particularly in Spain and China. He warned against a ‘European complex’ that could not relate to events in Asia, but assu ...

government to run up debts on a country’s behalf. It was not clear that Nehru was at the time properly empowered to deliver on h ...

Western civilization, were going to be useful to backward countries. (This was an assumption he had used before when discussing ...

released a year later, on March 18, 1937, and had been welcomed into the Congress left. Gandhi then asked him to accept the pres ...

specifically repudiated Nehru’s claim that after 1937 there were only two parties in India, namely the Congress and the British ...

Bose, suggested that Bose, since he had won, should appoint his own working committee – which would definitely have precipitated ...

right among the so-called ‘High Command’, effectively a small clique with no legitimate status in the Congress’s organisation, r ...

now in existence. The viceroy had, however, rescued the Congress from an uncomfortable situation, effectively throwing it a life ...

4 THE END OF THE RAJ Jawaharlal Nehru kept a page from his copy of the New Republicon which W.H. Auden announced the close of ‘a ...

some form of socialism was still the only way forward. Support for the USSR, for example, was the touchstone of a socialist’s le ...

of representatives of Indian politicians and princely states – not elected ones –to review the 1935 Act. This was far from adequ ...

Nevertheless, it infinitely simplified British negotiations during the war to be dealing with two parties rather than several. F ...

THE CONGRESS RESPONSE, 1939–41 But the Muslim League was not Congress’s main concern as yet. After the ministries’ resignations, ...

publicly acknowledging that it was one, even if remaining suspicious in private of a war that the Congress believed still had im ...

the Eighth Route Army in the north-western field of operation against the Japanese, and to the Congress Medical Mission there, w ...

months’ rigorous imprisonment for each offence, the sentences to run con- secutively – making four years in all. The trial laste ...

Defence, Finance and Home remained in the hands of ‘European’ officials; the new post of War Production was given to the British ...