HISTORY IN PRESENT TENSE 67 searing anger that "the passions of youth have become the lusts of aging men". The specialist still has an intellectual and political option. ARVIND N DAS Senior Fellow, Public Enterprises Centre for Continuing Education, New Delhi. The luthor is grateful to Dr Basudev (Robi) Chatterjee and Dr Shahid Amin for -detailed discussion of Modern India during which many ideas and expressions in the present review article emerged. 1 EJHobsbaiyrn^ Industry 2 Ibid, p 9. 3 D D -Kosambi, The Culture and Civilisation ef Ancient India in Historical Outline^ London, Routledge and K.egan Paul, 1970. 4 D D Kosambi, An Introduction to the Study of Indian History, Bombay, Popular Prakashan, 1975. 5 Ibid. € Ibid. 7 Sabyasachi Bhattacharya, "History from Below", Social Scientist, Voi 11^ No 4^ April 1983. 8 Jean Chesneaux, Pasts and Futures or What is History for? London, Thames and Hundson, 197-8. 9 Sumit Sarkar, The Swadeshi Movement in Bengal, 1903-1908, New Delhi. Peopled Publishing House, 1977, p 473. 10 Chesneaux, op cit. 11 lUd. 12 Sumit Sarkar, ^p cit, p 3. 13 Sabyasachi Bhattacharya, op cit, 14 Kosambi, An Introduction.^, 'op cit. 15 P T Mansfield, Bihar and Orissa in 1930-31, Patna, Govenment of Bihar and Orissa? 1932. pi. 16 R A E Williams, Bihar and Orissa in 1931-32, Patna, Govenment of Bihar and Orissa, 1933. p 18. ^ ' 17 Ibid, pp 15, 16. 18 Swami Sahajanand, Mera Jewon Sangharsh (Hindi), Patna, Sitaram Ashram, 1952, pp 376-377. 19 N Mansergh (ed), The Transfer of Power, London, 1971, Vol II, pp 658-660. 20 Ibid. 21 Ibid, p449. 23 Ibid, p 3B9. 24 See, Hunkar, December 20, 1942, January 3, 10, 17, 1943, February 7, 1943 etc. 24 Sarkar, Swadeshi Movement, -op cit, p 509, 25 S Bhattacharya, op cit. 26 Sarkar, op cit, p 512. 27 Ibid, p 2 28 Chesneaux, op eit^ p 107. 29 Ibid.