o c i a I c i e n t i s t The Second World War and South Asia: An Introduction Subho Basu, Sanjoy Bhattacharya Robert Keys I Political Mobilization and the Underground Literature of the Quit India Movement, 1942-44 Paul R Greenough II The All India Hindu Mahasabha and the End of British Rule in India, 1939-1947 Nandini Gondhalekar Sanjoy Bhattacharya 48 The Dialectics of Retreat: Orissa, 1943-1950 Biswamoy Pati 75 Decolonisation and Tribal Policy in Jharkhand: Continuities with Colonial Discourse Amit Prakash Governing Africa: the Imperial Mind in British Colonies, 1938-1947, in the Light of Indian Experience Alan Cousins 314-315