volume 54, p. 58. Narayan had been particularly close to Nehru, and
addressed him as ‘bhai’ (brother).
40 Subhas Bose, quoted from ‘Report of an interview with R. Palme Dutt,
published in the Daily Worker, London, January 24, 1938’, reprinted in
Sisir Kumar Bose and Sugata Bose (ed.), Netaji Collected Works, volume
9: Congress President: Speeches, Articles and Letters, January 1938–May
1939 (Oxford University Press, 1995), p. 2.
41 Nehru to SC Bose, April 3, 1939, JNP, NML, volume 9, p. 211.
4 THE END OF THE RAJ
1 W.H. Auden, ‘September 1939’, New Republic, October 18, 1939, p. 297,
in JNP, NML, Part V, Nos 46–55, p. 3.
2 National Heraldeditorial, October 19, 1939, reprinted in SWJN, volume
10, p. 197.
3 Quoted in J.H. Voigt, ‘Co-operation or Confrontation? War and
Congress Politics, 1939–42’, in D.A. Low (ed.), Congress and the Raj
(South Asia Books, 1977), p. 354.
4 Personal and Most Secret: letter dated September 29, 1939, R.A.
Cassels to G. Laithwaite, Private Secretary to the Viceroy, file entitled
‘Suggestions for dealing with a break with Congress if it occurs under
Sec. 93’, IOR: L/P&J/8/593, f. 18.
5 Note by G. Laithwaite, Private Secretary to the viceroy, IOR: L/P&J/
8/593, f. 2. Laithwaite had strong misgivings about this approach, and
placed his misgivings on record, deploring an attempt to return to ‘a
Constitution based apparently on the principles of the Act of 1858’.
6 The Resolution is reprinted in full in a number of sources: see for
instance S.S. Pirzada and Syed Sharifuddin (eds), Foundations of
Pakistan: All-India Muslim League Documents 1906–1947(Metropolitan
Book Co., 1982).
7 JN to Gandhi, January 24, 1940, JNP, NML, volume 26, p. 5.
8 JN to Gandhi, January 24, 1940, JNP, NML, volume 26, p. 6.
9 JN to Krishna Menon, December 2, 1939, SWJN, volume 10, p. 263.
10 Cripps to Nehru, January 14, JNP, NML, volume 14, pp. 221–2.
11 Statement to the court, in Prison Diary, SWJN, volume 11, p. 491.
12 Prison diary, entry for 14 November 1940 (Nehru’s fifty-first birthday),
SWJN, volume 11, p. 495. He was arrested on October 31, and tried on
November 3–5, 1940.
13 Entry for August 7, 1941, prison diary, SWJN, volume 11, p. 671.
14 JN to J.C. Wedgwood, April 23, 1941, JNP, NML, volume 103, pp. 32–3.
15 JN, article for Daily Herald, London, typescript dated December 9, 1941,
JNP, NML, Part III, Sl No. 85.
16 Prime Minister Winston Churchill to Viceroy Lord Linlithgow, March 10,
1942, in N. Mansergh (ed.), India: The Transfer of Power 1942–1947
(TOP) (12 volumes, HMSO, 1975–83), volume I, p. 395.
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