Social Scientist. v 25, no. 292-293 (Sep-Oct 1997) p. 65.


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CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE 1930-31

An Autobiography, London, 1936, pp.184-5, but see p. 172. Documents of the History of the Communist Party of India, ed. G. Adhikari, Vol.EI C (1928), New Delhi, 1982, p.218.

Tara Chand, History of the Freedom Movement, Publication Division, Government of India, New Delhi, 1972, pp. 111-116.

For example, Paragraph 23 (c) of the Recommendations implied that there could be Departments not administered by members of the Executive Council responsible to the Legislature.

Text as summarized by.Judith M. Brown, Gandhi and Civil Disobedience, Cambridge, 1977, p.60.

"He become a symbols; the act [Saunders' assassination] was forgotten, the symbol remained, and within a few months [of his arrest] each town and village of the Punjab, and to a lesser extent in the rest of northern India, resounded with his name" (Nehru, Autobiography, p. 175).

"I am authorized, on behalf of His Majesty's Government, to state clearly that, in their judgement, it is implicit in the [Montagu] Declaration of 1917 that the natural issue of India's constitutional progress, as there contemplated, is the attainment of Dominion Status". The 1917 Declaration had contemplated a stage-by-stage "gradual development of self-governing institutions". Autobiography, p.197.

The total being 5,10, 276 as reported to the AICC before the Lahore session of the Congress (Brown, Gandhi and Civil Disobedience, p. 52). J. Nehru, An Autobiography, pp. 194-5.

Selected Works ofJawaharlal Nehru, ed. S. Gopal, IV, Delhi, 1973, p.192. Ibid, p. 187.

Gandhi at Subjects Committee, AICC, 27 Dec. 1929: Collected Works ofMahatma Gandhi, XLH, New Delhi, 1970, p.324. Collected Works, XLI, p.519. Collected Works, XLII, pp.432-35.

Nehru saw these points as "a surprising development", a come-down from "independence" (Autobiography, p.210); for much harsher criticism on this score, see R.P. Dun, India Today, Bombay, 1947, p.298. Judith Brown's analysis seems to me more reasonable here (Gandhi and Civil Disobedience, pp.922-3). But, then, we can now have the advantage of hindsight!

Quoted from:. Fischer, The Life ofMahatma Gandhi, in Tara Chand, IV, p. 127. Brown, Gandhi and Civil Disobedience, pp.113-4. Brown does not pause to think how the Congress "publicity machine" could have worked, when its pamphlet The Black Regime at Dharasana was promptly banned, and its copies confiscated. See the useful tables in Brown, pp.390-93. A utobiography, pp. 131 -2.

See the table "Gross Imports of Cotton Piece-goods into India, 1900-1 to 139-40" in Amiya Kumar Bagchi, Private Investment in India, 1900-1939, Cambridge, 1972, p.238.

Telegram, 20 Dec., quoted by Brown, pp. 168-9. Quoted, ibid., p.198.

Sumit Sarkar, The Logic of Gandhian Nationalism', in Indian Historical Review, m(l)(1976),esp.,pp.l36-41.

Autobiography, p.237. But Gandhi in his conversations with the Home Secretary H.W. Emerson on 6 April 1931 did refer to "brutal treatment of tenants by landlords" in U.P. (Collected Works ofMahatma Gandhi, Vol. XLV, p.454). It is



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