76 SOCIAL SCIENTIST waqfs to administer them;, and the provision for the election of members of these committees to the regional and national bodies. These are merely tentative demands, and it is hoped that those who have successfully countered communalism will^ on the basis of their experience^ improve upon these and give us a concrete plan of action. SUNEET CHOPRA * Irfan Habib, Jqtidar Alam Khan and K P Singh, ^Problems of the Muslim Minority in India*^, Social Scientist 47, pp 67-72. a KM Ashraf, "A Political History of Indian Muslims" in Z Imam (ed.) Muslims in India, 1975 p 50. 8 Ibid. 4 Ibid., p 47. Also it is interesting to note that Isfahan! was first appointed to government grain-buying in the Huq-Shyamaprasad Mukherjee-Bosc Ministry in early 1943, gained control of government buying under the League Ministry of Nazimuddin-Suhrawardhy that followed, and eventually he shut the mouths of the opposition by sharing his ill-gotten monopoly under the League Ministry with D P Khaitan (a nationalist and Birla^s agent), the Hindu Mahasabha supporter Napani and Hussein Kasscm Dada in 1943-44. See Arun Rose and Khoka Rai, Inside Bengal: 1941-44, December 1945, pp 22-41. 6 Programme of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), 1968, para 33, pp 13-14. e Habib et al, op. cit., p 68. 7 Ibid. 8 PC Joshi, U P ^amindari Abolition, Political Economy Study Scries no 4, 1952. 9 Habib et al, op. cit., p 68. 10 Imtiaz Ahmad, Suneet Chopra et al, "Elections and Political Changes: A Statistical Analysis of a U P Constituency^*, Indian Left Review, New Delhi, vol I, no 9, March 1972. 1 The use by landlords of converting zamindaris into khudkasht led to pitched battles between the Bharatpur and Alwar ruling houses and the Muslim Mewati tenantry. In Tripura, 40.003 peasants were evicted. In Midnapore (West Bengal) 15,000 eviction orders were served, and in Bareilly, 75,000 false entries were made by landlords. Everywhere the government sided with the landlords and against the tenantry. In Azamgarh district (UP) the Provincial Armed Constabulary was brought out and 400 kisans were arrested on false charges. In Andhra, inamdars and muafidars were grabbing lands from the tenantry making use of the Estate Land Act of 1908. This is quite a different picture from that given out by the clerical and landlord sections. See H K S Surjcet, Stick to the Land, All India Kisan Sabha, 1952. 'a Habib et al, op. cit., p 68. *8 Moonis Raza, Aijazuddin Ahmcd and Nans Ahmcd Siddiqui, "Some Aspects of Regional Demography" in Z Imam (cd.) op. cit., p 119. 14 Ibid., p 120. 16 Ibid., p 124. le Ibid., p 125. 17 Ibid., p 130. 18 Z Imam, "Some Aspects of the Social Structure of the Muslim Community in India^, ibid.. pp 98" 103. 18 M A Rasul, A History of the All India Kisan Sabha, National Book Agency, 1974, pp 37-38. ao Ibid., p 341. »1 Ibid., p 340.