recognises People’s Republic 158,
166, 199–200; Nehru’s loss of
authority after China war 255,
264; war with 246–50 see also
Tibet
Chinese Communist Party (CCP) 109,
146, 197, 199
Christians 84, 91, 93, 131–2, 146
Churchill, Winston 109, 114–15,
117, 120, 123, 162, 165, 256
Civil Disobedience 33, 36, 67–72,
109
Cold War seeBandung Conference,
China, non-alignment, USA,
USSR
Colombo Conference (1950) 165, 199
Colombo Conference (1954) 216
Colombo Plan 165
Commonwealth 114, 150, 160–5,
198–9, 222, 246
Communal Award (1932) 73
Communist Information Bureau
(Cominform) 182, 221
Communist International (Comintern)
12, 43, 79
Communist Party of Great Britain
(CPGB) 25, 76, 230
Communist Party of India (CPI): and
AITUC 189; on Bose and INA
126–8; CPI artists and Bengal
Famine 120; and CSP 79, 87, 101,
107, 117, 124, 180–1, 234; early
years 30, 43, 56; imperialist war
line 107; and India as
multinational state 124, 147, 207;
Kerala government 33, 229–31;
links with USSR 219, 221; as
main opposition party 142, 187,
196, 229, 246; Meerut Conspiracy
Case 67; and Pakistan 123–5, 154;
People’s War line 112, 126; and
Popular Front 79–80, 90; and
Quit India Movement 115, 117,
123; and Sino-Indian border
dispute 242, 247–50, 260;
Tebhaga 129, 154; Telengana 154,
185–6, 207; working with Nehru
and within Nehruvian project 125,
182, 192, 219, 226, 260
Community Development 194–5,
197, 225
Congress, Indian National: ‘atrocities’
against Muslims 92–3; Avadi
Resolution on ‘socialistic pattern
of society’ 198; and battle for the
succession 254–9; beginnings of
Gandhian politics 39–44; Council
entry 52–3; internal equations
after independence 17, 166–7,
175–6, 183–6; internal equations
at independence 125, 141–3;
internal equations in the 1930s
79–86, 97–101; Moderates and
Extremists 20–3, 30–1; Nehru’s
position in, 3–7; opposition to
Nehru from within 248, 251–2;
Purna Swarajresolution (1929)
64–5; running governments under
‘Provincial autonomy’ 86–94;
Tripuri session and crisis 99–101
Congress for Cultural Freedom (CCF)
205–6, 246
Congress Socialist Party (CSP) 76,
79–81, 83, 86–7, 93, 104; and
Bengal 91–2; boycotts Constituent
Assembly 147; and CPI 101, 107,
117, 124–5, 182, 229–30;
political trajectories of former
members 148, 205–6, 234; and
Quit India Movement 115, 117,
124; secedes from Congress 125,
142; and Subhas Bose 98, 100
Congress Volunteer Corps 66
Conservative Party 12, 77, 113–14,
163
Constituent Assembly 95, 132, 133,
140; and Commonwealth
membership 165, 198; and foreign
policy 156–7, 160, 198; key
debates 147–51INDEX 289