DEFIANCE AND CONFRONTATION 93 10. IOR, R/3/2/36. Report by M.M. Basu, Additional District Magistrate, Midnapur, 2/10/1942. 11. Ibid, N.M. Khan to the Additional Secretary (Home), Government of Bengal, 30/9/1942. 12. Ibid, S.G. Taylor, DIG, Intelligence Branch, to A. Gordon, IG, Govt. of Bengal, 29/9/1942. 13. IOR, MSS, Eur. F. 161, 5/4, Indian Police Collection, Memoirs of S.G. Taylor, pp. 3-4. 14. IOR, R/3/2./36, District Magistrate's daily report, 11/10/1942. 15. Ibid, N.M. Khan, DM to the Commissioner, Burdwan division, 13/10/1942 16. Ibid, A. Gordon to J.C. Irwin, personal secretary to the Bengal Governor, • 11/11/1942. 17. Ibid, Khan to the Commissioner, Burdwan division, 28/10/1942 18. Ibid, T.S.G. Taylor to A. Gordon, 27/10/1942 19. Ibid. 20. Ibid. 21. WBSA, Home-Poll 71/42, District Officer's chronicle, op.cit. p. 26. 22. Bidyut Chakrabarty, 'Political Mobilization at the Localities: the 1942 Quit India Movement in Midnapur', Modern Asian Studies, Cambridge (forthcoming) 23. WBSA, Home-Poll 71/42, District Officers chronicle, op. cit. pp. 30-31. 24. Partha Chatterjee, 'Spontaneity and Organization in Peasant Movements, 1920— 47, op.cit. p. 42. 25. Interview with Mr. Sushil Dhara (an active participant in the 1942 movement), Mahisadal, Midnapur, 26/12/1987. 26. Amales Tripathy, The Extremist Challenge, Calcutta, 1967 27. Interview with Mr. Ramesh Chandra Kar (an active participant in the 1942 movement), Tamluk, Midnapur, 27/12/1987. 28. In his prayer meeting on 30 December, 1945, in Mahisadal (Midnapur), Gandhi referred to the subject: 'What you have done is heroic and glorious. However you have deviated from the path of non-violence'. See, Anandabazar Patrika, Calcutta, 31/12/1945. 29. Jawaharlal Nehru, The Discovery of India, (Cen ternary edition), Oxford University Press, Delhi, 1989, p. 475. 30. National Library of Australia, Canberra, MS. 2852, Series 4, Box 21, Folder 24, Gowrie Papers, Linlithgow to Gowrie, Governor General of Australia, 11/12/1942—quoted in Indivar Kamtekar, The end of the Colonial date 1940-47', unpublished Ph.D dissertation. University of Cambridge, 1988 p. 46. 31. IOR, R/3/2/36, John Herbert's note, 1 /10/1942.