30 JN to Asaf Ali, May 14, 1947, SWJN II, volume 2, pp. 148–50, quote from
p. 149.
31 JN to Asaf Ali, May 14, 1947, SWJN II, volume 2, pp. 148–50, quote from
p. 149.
32 SWJN II, volume 2, pp. 73–5
33 Note dated May 11, 1942, Lahore, to Colonel Louis Johnson, JNP, NML,
volume 37, pp. 13–24, esp. pp. 22–3.
34 Quoted in S. Gopal, Jawaharlal Nehru: a Biography, volume 2 (Jonathan
Cape, 1979), p. 53.
35 Nehru to Cripps, May 8, 1949, quoted in Peter Clarke, The Cripps Version
(Allen Lane, 2002), p. 476 fn. 74.
36 Speech in the Constituent Assembly, May 16, 1949, quoted in S.L.
Poplai (ed.), India 1947–50: Select Documents on Asian Affairs, volume 2,
p. 71.
37 Pablo Neruda, Memoirs(Penguin, 1978), pp. 202–3.5 CONSOLIDATING THE STATE, c. 1947–55
1 Press statement, August 15, 1947, Jawaharlal Nehru’s Speeches, volume
one, p. 27.
2 Figures are from Penderel Moon, Divide and Quit: An Eyewitness Account
of the Partition of India (new edition, Chatto and Windus, 1998),
Appendix; G.D. Khosla, Stern Reckoning: a Survey of the Events Leading
up to and Following the Partition of India(Oxford University Press; new
edition, 1989, 1950), p. 299; H.V. Hodson, The Great Divide: Britain,
India, Pakistan(Hutchinson, 1969), p. 418; Mushirul Hasan, ‘Introduc-
tion’, The Partition Omnibus, (Oxford University Press, 2002), p. xxiv.
3 JN to Mountbatten, August 27, 1947, SWJN II, volume 4, pp. 25–6.
4 JN to Mountbatten, Lahore, August 31, 1947, SWJN II, volume 4,
pp. 44–5.
5 JN to Rajendra Prasad, August 7, 1947, SWJN II, volume 3, p. 191.
6 Note to Cabinet ministers, September 12, 1947, SWJN II, volume 4,
p. 65.
7 JN to Patel, September 30, 1947, SWJN II, volume 4, p. 114.
8 MK Gandhi, speech on January 12, 1948, Delhi Diary(Navajivan, 1948),
pp. 330–3, reprinted in S.L. Poplai (ed.), India 1947–50: Select Documents
on Asian Affairs, volume 1, p. 418.
9 Incident outside Birla House, January 24, 1948, SWJN II, volume 5, p. 31,
note.
10 Jawaharlal Nehru’s Speeches, volume one, p. 37.
11 Quoted in Bipan Chandra et al., India’s Struggle for Independence, p. 454.
12 Speech in the Constituent Assembly on February 2, 1948, reprinted in
SWJN II, volume 5, p. 40.
13 Nehru to Mountbatten, December 26, 1947, cited in H.V. Hodson, The
Great Divide, pp. 467–8.274 NOTES