"HE AGRARIAN QUESTION 1885-1947 49 rangaiya, Vol. 3, op. c//.,p. 444. 27. ludith M. Brown, "The Role of a National Leader : Gandhi, congress and Civil Disobedience, 1929-34", in DA. Low, op.cit, pp. 133-^; D^vid Hardi-man, op. cit., pp. 62-67. During the campaign the peasants of ^Myjncnsingh dt., Bengal began to attack the moneylenders at Kishorc Ganj. ^he Congress organs denounced their action and called for the intervention of police forces, Muzaffar Ahmcd, ed.. Communists Challenge Imperialism/ram the (>ock, NBA, Calcutta 1967, p. 86. 28. A.M. Zaidi, Vol. 10, p. 151. 29. A.M. Zaidi. Vol. 11. 30. Ibid., p. 119. 31. Z^W., pp. 212-13. 32. Crane, op. cit., p. 163. 33. Walter Hauscr, "The Indian National Congress and Land Policy in the Twentieth Century", 1ESHR, Vol. 1, No. 1. Jul.-Sept 1963, pp. 57-65. 34. Low, op, cit., p. 30. 35. A.M. Zaidi, Vol. 11, p. 439. 36.' A. Rasul. A History of the All India Kisan Sabha, NBA, Calcutta,'1^74, p. 63. 37. A.M. Zaidi, Vol. 12, p. 534. 38. Pattabhi Sitharamayya said in his election campaign : ^The Congress had drawn up a programme of action legislation (for zamindari abolition). Is it a small thing that the zamindars are seeking Congress candidature direct for the v zamindari scats or asking for Congress support on their signi'rig'a pledge that they accept the object of the Congress . . . and undertake to abide byr and vote according to the instructions, guidance and advice of the Cori^rcss on all matters legislative and administrative ?", M. Venkatarangafah, Vo^.^4, p. *1034. 39. Third Communist International, the directing centre of the international working class revolutionary movement (founded in 1919), guided aft^i influenced the Communists' understanding of the agrarian question frtel time to time. 40. G. Adhikari, Documents. Vol. 1, PPH, New Delhi, 1971, pi. 163. 41. fbad.^. 203. It is to be^noted here that M.N. Roy, whose ideas and formulations acquire significance because of his position in the colonial commission of the Comintcrn and the authority he had over the Commirttist circles in India at that time. had a highly unrealistic assessment 'of? the'scope^br the development of the revolutionary movement in India and incorrect estimate regarding the Congress ability to draw the peasant masses into the national movement. 42. Jane Dcgras, cd.» The Communist Internationale 1919-43^ Documents in three volumes, Frank Cass & Co., Ltd., London, 1971, Vol. 1, p. 386. 43. Ibid., p. 387. 44. G. Adhikari, Vol. 1, op. cit., p. 587. 45. British imperialism, afraid of the threat of proletarian revolution in the home country and the Indian national bourgeoisie under the fear of mass revolution were drawn together in an alliance—the latter becoming a junior partner and protege of the former. 46. Muzaffar Ahmed, Myself and the Communist Party of India 1920-29, NBA, Calcutta, 1970, pp. 418-20. 47. Dwas. Vol. 2. p. 539. 48. Ibid., p. 543. 49. In June 1929, the Executive Committee of the Comintcrn in a letter to the CC