18 SOCIAL SCIENTIST period; it was thus able to reach large masses of the people and ex^dain to them its whole programme and activities. The people saw the campaigns our Party led in their defence against the war burdens and corruptions; its activities to procure for them essential goods and its fight against blackmarketeers, hoarders and corrupt officials; its grow-more-food campaigns, its campaign for relief to the victims of the Bengal famine, and so on. Though our Party's 'no-strike' policy and its extreme form of implementation did alienate quite a large proportion of the working class, the working class was able to see our Party defending it and participating in its struggles against the exploiting capitalists on innumerable occasions on partial demands. The people were also able to see our Party campaigning for Hindu-Muslim and Congress-League unity, and its work against communal riots, especially in 1946. During this period, the building of independent class organisations became a very noticeable feature of our work. This was seen in the work of the Kisan Sabha, the organisations of youth, students and progressive writers, and cultural organisations. Even among the working class, where the 'no-strike9 policy hampered our Party's work and influence, the development of independent working class organisations in which the Party cadre participated actively was considerable. Our Party had, to some extent, seen the post-war mass usurge in India, corrected its earlier policies and had come out in militant support of the mass struggles that were breaking out. Its campaign for the release of the Indian National Army prisoners; its support of the Royal Indian Navy (RIN) revolt and the Bombay working class general strike in support of the revolt; its support of various hartals in different cities and provinces; its campaign and active role and participation in the all-India general strike of postal and other government employees; its leading role in various peasant mass upheavals in different states; and especially its part in the struggle of the people of the states against the autocratic native princes in different parts of India—all this was another important factor in making the people understand the Communist Party's policies and activities, their correctness despite certain weaknesses during certain periods. The changed policy of our Party enabled it to plan, to some extent, more radical and militant mass struggles in Hyderabad State during 1946, and develop them in the post-war atmosphere of mass upsurge. During the period of the Second World War, with the understanding and policies prevailing at the all-India level, our Party in Hyderabad State could not come out with the clear-cut slogan of abolition of the Nizam's rule, abolition of landlordism, and for radical land distribution. But here too—in the Hyderabad State and especially in the Telangana region—what saved our party and the movement was our intense activity and struggles against forced labour, illegal exactions and forced grain levy collections from the small peasantry; and our fight against the highhanded and illegal war fund exactions by corrupt officials. We fought