Khan 381Britain’s first Labor MP, entering Parliament in miner’s cap and tweed suit.
In 1914, at the outset of World War I, he was chairman of the British sec-
tion of the International Socialist Bureau.
27.abermas’s 1962 H Transformation of the Public Sphere traced the original
“public spheres” to eighteenth-century salons.
28.ctually, Cama had established A Bande Mataram (Hail! Motherland) after
her salon was flooded by young men leaving Britain after the fallout of the
Dhingra case in 1909; it ran from September 1909 to 1914. The original
Bande Mataram had been founded in 1905 in Calcutta by Bipin Chandra
Pal, who had been jailed for nationalist activities.
29.irendranath Chattopadhya V (1880–1937?) was the son of a famous Bengali
family which included a sister who became president of the Indian National
Congress. He went to London to study law in 1903 and became involved
with the India House group. Charismatic and cultured, he is mentioned
admiringly by Jawaharlal Nehru in his autobiography and shows up regu-
larly in CID Reports before and during World War I. He remained active
in anti-imperial organizations until 1938, when he “disappeared” in Russia
during the Stalinist purges.
- Farid, 378.
31.ational Archives of India, Home Department (henceforth NAI-Home): N
Political B, November 1910, #17–24, Weekly Report of the Director of
Criminal Intelligence (henceforth CID Weekly Report), 11 October 1910, 10.
32.lthough these papers were not capitalist, in that they were not meant to A
turn a profit, there is a common element of creating a shared imagined
community through the medium of popular/mass print. Thus, I use the
term “nationalist printing” in place of Anderson’s “print capitalism.”
33.uhammad L. Jumah, M Shahid ‘ala al-‘Asr, Mudhakkirat Muhammad Lutfi
Jumah (Cairo: al-Haya al-Misriyya al-‘Amma li-l-Kitab, 2000), 147. The
Congress was to have been held in Paris; but the meeting was moved at the
last minute to Brussels as the French authorities decided not to allow Paris
to be used as a staging ground for anti-imperial activity, even if the Empire
in question was not their own. - PRO: FO 371/1364, Kitchener to Grey, 27 October 1912, no.117.
35.AI-Home: Political B, November 1910, #17–24, CID Weekly Report, 18 N
October 1910, 17–19. - Ibid.