QUIT INDIA MOVEMENT 47 with cowardice.' Hutchins, Spontaneous Revolution, pp. 301-2. Samanta et al., August Revolution., pp. 41-2, 50-2. See Bengal, Bengal Legislative Assembly Proceedings, 64, no.l (February 1943), p.72 (N. Sanyal), pp. 79-82 (P. Banerji), and p. 90 (S. P. Mookerji). The Chief Minister, Fazlul Huq, agreed to an inquiry (ibid., p. 98) and, in fact, preliminary inquiries had been made in Midnapur by Mr. B. R. Sen, I.C.S.; Biplabi, January 26, 1943. P. Greenough, Prosperity and Misery in Modern fiengal, the Famine of 1943-44 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1982). The Government's anxieties about the change in Gandhi's public attitude towards violence were expressed in Congress Responsibility, pp. 13-16. Gandhi had clearly stated in a published 'Conversation with Members of the Rashtriya Yuvak Sangh' on May 28, 1942, that 'I always thought that I would have to wait till the country was ready for a non-violent struggle. But my attitude has undergone a change...to day we have to go a step further. We have to take the risk of violence to shake off the great calamity of slavery ...The people do not have my ahimsa ...I will certainly launch a non-violent movement. But if people do not understand it and there is violence, how can I stop it...' Collected Works, vol. 76, pp. 159-60. Gandhi further made sure that the Viceroy was directly informed that he would not call off the movement on account of violence; see summary of Mirabehn's talk on July 17, 1942 with Laithwaite, the Viceroy's aide, Transfer of Power, vol. 2, pp. 407-8. 'Appeal to Students' (1943), reproduced in Jayaprakash Narayan, Towards Total Revolution, vol. 3, India and Her Problems, edited by Brahmanand (Bombay: Popular Prakashan, 1978), p. 26. See the account of the attack on Tamluk police station, September 29, 1942 in anon., Swadhinata Sangrame Medinipur, p. 55. Collected Works, vol. 77, pp. 265-8, 429-30. In a press statement dated August 5, 1944 Gandhi said inter alia that 'the second thing that I should like done...is for those who have gone underground to discover themselves. They can do so by informing the authorities of their movements and whereabouts or by simply and naturally doing their work in the open without any attempt to evade or elude the police.' Collected Works, vol. 78, p. 10. The publication of Gandhi's demand sparked a protest from certain Congressmen; Pyarelal discusses this problem at some length. Mahatma Gandhi, The Last Phase, vol. 1, 36-45. In his 'Discussion with a Friend,' dated about May 6,1944, Gandhi singled out Jayaprakash for criticism. The latter was bitter, both privately at the time and later in print after his release from prison in 1946. See Ajit Bhattacharyya, Jayaprakash Narayan, a Political Biography, rev. edn (New Delhi: Vikas, 1978), p. 102 for diary entries dated August 5 and August 11, 1944. Also see Jayaprakash's The Revolution in 1942' (1946) in Towards Total Revolution, vol. 2, Politics in India, p. 49.