BOOK REVIEW 75 rule, and sharply reacted to insults and humiliation. Major Jaipal Singh explains how they evolved an organisational net work, knowing too well that collective bargaining would be considered an act of mutiny which could bring them death penalty. It is surprising that neither Congress nor left parties paid attention to mobilise dissatisfaction among British armed forces, and bring them within the organisational fold which could have delivered a death blow to the British rule in India in the quickest time.Through these memoirs. Major Jaipal Singh tells us how without any outside help from leading organised political parties, they proceeded to evolve revolutionary organisation among themselves. He also throws light on wide-spread anti-British revolt of Indian drivers during the war in Libya. In Lahore, Major Jaipal Singh came in contact with Communists. He was a witness to brutal dehumanising effects of the war in Assam in the shape of rape and murder of cvilians, death penalty to the INA soldiers taken as prisoners of War by the British. He also saw Burmese villages and towns turned into graveyards. At the end of the war, nobody knew it more than these army men that imperialism had weakened and its foundation shaken beyond repair and people were in a militant mood. The revolutionary energy of the people was converted into communal frenzy. This was due to a grave betrayal of Indian people by Congress which failed to launch anti-imperialist struggle at the end of the War. When Communist Party published and circulated the Operation Asylum exposing the attempts of British imperialism to subvert the national movement, interim Government headed by Congress, raided and searched their party offices all over the country. During early years of underground life. Major Jaipal Singh tasted bitter disillusionment with empty revolutionary phrase mongering of the Socialist Party. After a year of unjust detention by the Congress regime. Major Jaipal Singh escaped to freedom to join the Telengana peasant struggle. Here he saw Nehru's democracy in operation, no way different from Nazi rule. Peasantry fought heroically in the face of police brutalities and unaccountable agony and suffering. He describes how under blood and smoke a new peasantry was being shaped, no more survile to the oppressors, but strong and upright with determination to overthrow age-old exploitation. The police engaged in indiscriminate arson, loot, rape, and murder, and let loose a reign of terror. The peasantry bore all this with exemplary heroism. These memoirs are incomplete and stop at Telengana. Yet they throw invaluable light on the experiences during those stormy years. Major Jaipal Singh's immense sacrifice will remain a constant source of inspiration for people engaged in the battle for liberation. Brahma Nand, Dept. of History, A.R.S.D. College, Dhaula Kuan, Delhi University, New Delhi