14 Patel’s broadcast, January 30, 1948, text reprinted in S.L. Poplai (ed.),
India 1947–1950: Select Documents on Asian Affairs, volume 1, p. 433
15 J.B. Kripalani’s speech on November 15, 1947, reprinted in S.L. Poplai
(ed.), India 1947–1950: Select Documents on Asian Affairs, volume 1, pp.
438–42; quote from p. 438.
16 Resolutions of the Socialist Party, March 19–21, 1948, reprinted in
S.L. Poplai (ed.), India 1947–1950: Select Documents on Asian Affairs,
volume 1, pp. 450–1.
17 Resolutions of the Socialist Party, March 19–21, 1948, reprinted in
S.L. Poplai (ed.), India 1947–1950: Select Documents on Asian Affairs,
volume 1, p. 453.
18 Quoted in SWJN II, volume 3, p. 237.
19 JN to Vijayalakshmi Pandit, March 25, 1948, SWJN II, volume 5,
p. 573.
20 JN to J.P. Narayan, August 19, 1948, quoted in S. Gopal, Jawaharlal
Nehru: a Biography, volume 2, p. 67.
21 J.P. Narayan to JN, December 10, 1948, quoted in S. Gopal Jawaharlal
Nehru: a Biography, volume 2, p. 69.
22 B.D. Graham, Hindu Nationalism and Indian Politics: the Origins and
Development of the Bharatiya Jana Sangh(Cambridge University Press,
1990), esp. p. 20 ff.
23 Election figures taken from W.H. Morris-Jones, The Government and
Politics of India(Hutchinson, 1964; edition cited 1967), pp. 163–4.
24 Objectives and Economic Programme Committee, text of resolution
reprinted in S.L. Poplai (ed.), India 1947–1950: Select Documents on
Asian Affairs, volume 1, pp. 445–6.
25 Speech to the Associated Chambers of Commerce, Calcutta, December
15, 1947, SWJN II, volume 4, pp. 563–4.
26 Speech at the All-India Manufacturers’ Conference, April 14, 1947,
SWJN II, volume 2, p. 585.
27 Speech to the Central Board of Irrigation, New Delhi, December 5, 1948,
Jawaharlal Nehru’s Speeches, volume 1, p. 90.
28 A.K. Shaha, India on Planning: Planning for Liquidation of Unemployment
and Illiteracy(Calcutta, 1948), p. 108.
29 Quoted in Ashok Rudra, Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis: a Biography
(Oxford University Press, 1996), p. 432.
30 Quoted in (among other pieces: this is an oft-quoted statement) Simon
R. Charsley and G.K. Karanth, ‘Dalits and State Action: The “SCs”’, in
Simon R. Charsley and G.K. Karanth (eds), Challenging Untouchability:
Dalit Initiative and Experience from Karnataka(Sage, 1998), p. 32.
31 Government of India, Planning Commission, Gramdan Movement: a
Handbook(New Delhi, 1964), p. 2.
32 Jayaprakash Narayan, ‘Letter to PSP Associates’, Towards a New Society
(Congress for Cultural Freedom, 1958), pp. 1–48; quotes from pp. 21,
26, 30, 32.
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