Constitution of India 147–51, 232;
Directive Principles 150–1;
Fundamental Rights 150–1
constructive programme 66, 79
cooperative farming 153, 194–5,
224–5, 227, 234, 242, 263
Cripps, Stafford, 4, 95, 108–9,
113–16, 129, 163–4
Cripps Mission (1942) 113–16, 164
Cuban Missile Crisis 247
Curzon, Lord 34Dalai Lama 241
Dange, S.A. 4 3
Das, Chittaranjan (C.R.) 41, 52–3
Defence of India Act (1915) 31
Defence of India Rules (1939) 109,
110
Delhi Durbar (1911) 22, 29
Depressed Classes seeScheduled Castes
Desai, Bhulabhai 85, 128
Desai, Morarji 251, 254, 257–8
Dhebar, U.N. 186
Direct Action Day 130
Disraeli, Benjamin 12, 48
divide and rule 19, 57, 67, 101
dominion status 61–2, 64–5, 104,
109, 114, 164; and Kashmir
conflict 178; temporary 137, 139,
142, 147–8, 176
Dover, Cedric 76–7
Dulles, John Foster 158–9, 218–19
Dutt, Clemens 25, 58
Dutt, Ellie 25
Dutt, Rajani Palme 25, 58, 76, 98
Dutt, Upendra Krishna 25
duumvirate 169, 173, 180
Dyer, General 37–9economic development 1, 2, 10, 82,
140–1, 151–4, 212–14, 223–9,
233; achievements and failures
261, 262–3; and ‘Colombo Plan’
200; and intellectuals 190–4; and
Jewish technicians 97; Liaquat AliKhan’s Budget 132; as solvent for
communalism 144; and Soviet aid
221; sterling balances and Cold
War pressures on 160–5; tariffs
and market-sharing 56; and
‘village communities’ 194–8;
wartime inadvertent import
substitution 34
economic nationalism 14, 18, 152,
234
Eighth Route Army, Indian medical
mission to 108–9
Einstein, Albert 59
Eisenhower, Dwight 235, 243
elections: of 1937 86, 88–9, 105,
121–2; of 1945–46 106, 123,
124, 127, 129, 132, 136, 176;
boycott of 1920 elections 41–2;
by-elections 253; and communists
in Kerala 229, 232, 233; Congress
presidential 1939 96, 99, 101;
Congress presidential 1950 184;
general elections of 1952 186–7,
207; general elections of 1957
229–30; general elections of 1962
245, 251; general elections of
1967 234; implications of
sectarian, ethnic or linguistic
loyalties for 208; Labour victory in
Britain 123; rigged in Kashmir
256; Shastri elected Nehru’s
successor 258; and Swaraj Party 52
electorates: under 1935 Act 77–8, 85;
Nehru Report’s recommendations
62; Nehru’s popularity before 142,
183, 215, 261; separate
(communal) electorates 5–6, 22,
35, 73, 147
Elwin, Verrier 239
equality before the law 1, 144, 150
eugenics 70, 146, 191Fabians, Fabianism, Fabian socialism
4, 14, 24, 25, 81, 190, 226
fascists, fascism 14, 79–80, 87–8, 94,290 INDEX