17 The amendment to the quote is noted in S. Gopal, Jawaharlal Nehru: a
Biography, volume 1, p. 279.
18 Nehru to Evelyn Wood, June 5, 1942, quoted in Peter Clarke, The Cripps
Version: The Life of Sir Stafford Cripps 1889–1952(Allen Lane, 2002),
p. 305.
19 The text of the speech is available in M.K. Gandhi, Collected Works(88
volumes, Navajivan, 1958–), volume 76, pp. 384–96. For a summary
see Bipan Chandra et al, India’s Struggle for Independence, (Penguin,
1988) pp. 459–60.
20 Linlithgow, personal telegram to Winston Churchill, August 31, 1942,
TOP, volume II, p. 853.
21 Dorothy Norman (ed.), Nehru: The First Sixty Years(2 volumes, Bodley
Head, 1965), volume 1, p. ix.
22 Quoted in Ayesha Jalal, The Sole Spokesman: Jinnah, the Muslim League
and the Demand for Pakistan(Cambridge University Press, 1985), p. 121.
23 Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, India Wins Freedom (Orient Longman,
1959/1988), p. 117
24 Z.A. Ahmad’s talk with Jawaharlal Nehru, June 1945, ‘not to be shown to
anyone else without P.C. Joshi’s [General Secretary, CPI] permission’,
1945/9, P.C. Joshi Archive, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.
25 G. Adhikari, National Unity Now!(People’s Publishing House, 1942),
pp. 5–6, P.C. Joshi Archive, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.
26 AICC speech, July 7, 1946, quoted in S. Gopal, Jawaharlal Nehru: a
Biography, volume 1, p. 326.
27 Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, India Wins Freedom(1959/1988), p. 170.
28 Sulagna Roy, ‘Communal Conflict in Bengal, 1930–1947’, unpublished
PhD thesis, University of Cambridge, 1999, Chapter Four.
29 Statement to the press on the Great Calcutta Killings, August 26, 1946,
JNP, NML, Part III, No. 345.
30 Sulagna Roy, ‘Communal Conflict in Bengal, 1930–1947’, Chapter Four.
31 S. Gopal (ed.), Selected Works of Jawaharlal Nehru, Second Series(Delhi
1984–) [hereafter SWJN II], volume 2, pp. 44–5, quote from p. 45.
32 JN to Patel, November 5, 1946, JNP, NML, volume 81, pp. 93–4.
33 Minutes of the 6th Miscellaneous Meeting of the Congress, New Delhi,
April 22, 1947, TOP, volume 10, pp. 363–5.
34 Quoted in Alan Campbell-Johnson, Mission with Mountbatten(Hale,
1951; edition cited 1985), entry for June 1, 1947, p. 98.
35 S.L. Poplai (ed.), Select Documents on Asian Affairs: India 1947–1950
(Oxford University Press, 1959; reprint, New York, 1970), volume 1, p. 2.INTERLUDE – ENVISIONING THE NEW INDIA
1 Ram Manohar Lohia’s note (1947) ‘Fifteen-Point Note on Congress and
the Socialist Party’, AICC Papers, File 6/1947, pp. 467–77.
2 Jawaharlal Nehru, Discovery of India(Meridian Books, 1946), p. 52.272 NOTES