14 Reprinted in SWJN, volume 6, pp 1–31; quote from p. 16.
15 Abdur Rahim to Nehru, October 26, JNP, NML, Vol 1, p. 24.
16 Quoted in S. Gopal, Jawaharlal Nehru: A Biography, volume 1, p. 186.
17 Copy of note accompanying application form of Indira Priyadarshini
Nehru, dated May 20, 1934, signed Jawaharlal Nehru. JNP, NML,
volume 21, pp. 161–5.
18 Cedric Dover to JN, ‘Sunday’ [1936], JNP, NML, volume 18, p. 123.
19 Dover to JN, May 18, 1936, JNP, NML, volume 18, pp. 125–7.
20 JN to Amiya Chakravarty, March 4, Montreaux, JNP, NML, volume 11,
p. 189.
21 Subhas Chandra Bose to JN, Badgastein, Austria, March 4, 1936, JNP,
NML, volume 9, pp. 7–9.
22 JN, An Autobiography, p. 164.
23 Jayaprakash Narayan, Why Socialism? (All-India Congress Socialist
Party, 1936), pp. 136, 143, 154–60.
24 JNP, NML, volume 110, Subject Files No. 19 (Part I), pp. 2–3.
25 Prospectus of the Socialist Book Club, copy in All-India Congress
Committee (AICC) Papers, NML, 21 (Part I)/1936, pp. 661–3(b).
26 Speech at the Left Book Club Rally, Queen’s Hall, London, July 6, 1938,
SWJNvolume 9, p. 34.
27 Gandhi to Agatha Harrison, April 30, 1936, copy in JNP, NML, volume
24, p. 55.
28 Quoted in Bipan Chandra, ‘Jawaharlal Nehru and the Capitalist Class,
1936’ in Economic and Political Weeklyx (33–35), 1975.
29 George Joseph to Jawaharlal Nehru, July 18, 1936, JNP, NML, volume 37,
pp. 57–8.
30 Nehru to George Joseph, August 7, 1936, JNP, NML, volume 37, p. 59.
31 Modern Review, November 1937, copy in JNP, NML, Part II, Sl No. 54
and JN’s letter to Krishna Kripalani at Vishwa Bharati University, June
26, 1938, JNP, NML, volume 41, pp. 5–6, in which he confirms he wrote
it himself.
32 JN to Nawab Mohammad Ismail Khan of the Muslim League, February
5, 1938, JNP, NML, volume 39, pp. 131–2.
33 Syed Mahmud to JN, December 9, 1939, JNP, NML, vol 97, pp. 159–65.
34 JN to Syed Mahmud, December 12, 1939, JNP, NML, vol 97, pp. 166–7.
35 Report dated August 29, 1938, India Office Records (IOR): L/P&J/12/
293, f. 136.
36 Partha Sarathi Gupta, Imperialism and the British Labour Movement
(Macmillan, 1975), pp. 258–9.
37 Chairman’s Note on Congress Policy, December 21, 1938, reprinted in
KT Shah (ed.), Report: National Planning Committee(Bombay, 1949),
pp. 35–7.
38 National Herald editorial, copy in JNP, NML, Part III, Sl No. 52,
September 27, 1936.
39 Jayaprakash Narayan to JN, Calicut, November 23, 1938, JNP, NML,270 NOTES