NATIONALISM AND POPULAR CONSCIOUSNESS 67 3 Partha Chatterjee, The Nation and its Fragments: Colonial and Postcolonial Histories, Delehi, 1994. 4. See the contributions in R. Guha ed.. Subaltern Studies volumes. 5. The term 'popular' is used in the same way that Sumit Sarkar used to denote a broad spectrum of subordinate social groups like tribals, peasants, artisans and labouring groups in a situation where 'precise class analysis is ... difficult'. See Sumit Saikar, 'Popular Movements and Middle Class', op.cit., p. 2. 6. Quit India Movement: British Secret Report, ed. P.N. Chopra, see the Introduction. 7. File-642/42 Part, West Bengal State Archive (hereafter WBSA), Home, New Delhi, to all provincial governments No.3/34/42-Poll(l) 14 November 1942. 8. The Indian Nation in 1942, ed., G. Pandey, (K.P. Bagchi, Calcutta, 1988, p. 5. 9. Ibid. 10. Sumit Sarkar, 'Popular Movements & Middle Class Leadership', op.cit., p.49. Sarkar also asserts: 'The Calcutta industrial belt was also largely quiet,... Communist opposition to the movement probably played a considerable role in restraining the workers'. See his Modem India 1885-1947, Delhi, 1986 ed.. pp. 396 - 97. 11. Cited in E.M .S. Namboodiripad, A History of India's Freedom Struggle, Social Scientist Press, Trivandrum, 1986,.pp. 753 - 54. 12. Ibid., p. 753. 13. Ranajit Das Gupta, Economy, Society and Politics in Bengal: Jalpaiguri 1869-1947, OUP Delhi, 1992. 14. District Officers' Chronicle of Events of Disturbances consequent upon the AICC Resolution of 8 August 1942 and Arrest of Congress Leaders thereafter, WBSA, pp. 4 - 13, pp. 114 - 15. 15. Ibid., pp. 34 -36, 91. 16. Ibid., p. 91. 17. Sunil Sen, 'Peasant Uprisings in Bengal 1885 - 1947' in Challenge: A Saga of India's Struggle for Freedom, ed., N.R. Ray et. al., PPH, Delhi, 1984. 18. Files-477/43, Col. 2 and 413/43, WBSA. Also see the Bengal Congress Bulletins and District Officers' Chronicle, op.cit. 19. File-477/43, WBSA. 20. File-396/43, WBSA, SP Midnapore to DIG Burdwan Range, 3 June 1943 and DM Midnapur to Commissioner, Burdwan Division, No. 1300C 2 June 1943. 21. File-413/43, WBSA, SP Midnapur to DM Midnapur 12 June 1943. 22. File-413/43, WBSA. 23. File-413/43 SP Midnapur to DM Midnapur 12 June 1943. 24. Bengal Congress Bulletin (Calcutta) 22 January 11943, No.5 25. Ibid. 26. For an account of the Balurghat turmoil see Biren De Sarkar, 'The People's Revolution: Balurghat 1942' in Challenge, op.cit. 27. File-642/42, WBSA Home Department, India, to All Provincial Governments, No.3/34/42-Poll(I) of 14 November 1942; District Officers Chronicle, op. cit., pp. 4 -17. 28. For details of this insurgency see Pramatha Gupta, Tribal People in Liberation Struggle, Calcutta, 1983. 29. See File-6-S-15/44, Commerce and Labour (Commerce Branch) B March 1943, Progs.293-338, WBSA; File-Home (Conf) 253/43, WBSA. 30. File-Home (Conf) 253/43, WBSA. 31. File-Home (Conf) 253/43, WBSA. 32. Intelligence Branch Records, Bengal Police (Hereafter IB Records). 33. Ibid.