78 SOCIAL SCIENTIST to itself a self-denying ordinance and helped every national movement initiated by the Congress including the Assembly election." (Rasul, M A, op.cit.p 327). u M H Siddiqui op.cit., p 195 foot note 222. Unfortunately, no one so far has noted that Mani Lal, Baba Ram Chandra^s associate from his Fiji days, was a member of the then infant communist Party'. An enclosure of the Intelligence Bureau sent by Kaye to Muddiman on September 24 1924, notes that on September 20 Mani Lal was reported to have become the member of ^an Indian Communist Party" with branches at Calcutta, Madras, Bombay and Kanpur. (Communism in India by C Kaye with Unpublished Documents/row National Archives of India, 1919-1924, by Subodh Roy, Calcutta 1971 pp 261-2). Kaye too, notes, "Dr Mani Lal was a Barrister at Law who had given trouble in Fiji, whence he was deported: he had been ordered to remove himself from New Zealand and Ceylon, and had been refused permission to practise before the High Courts of Madras, Bombay and Calcutta. He was eventually admitted to practise before the High Court at Patna. Roy recommended him as one of the 'Commission* to elaborate the programme of the 'Workers and Peasants Party'as proposed to be constituted by Ghulam Hussain*s abortive Conference at Lucknow ... At the Cawnpore trial he appeared in defence of Muzaffar Ahmed and Shaukat Usmani, and was in the rather peculiar position of finding his own name occurring constantly, in the exhibits put in at the trial." (Ibid 196). Another document notes, "Dr. Manilal . . . deserves special notice . . . and, though he has been clever enough to keep himself in the background, there is ample evidence that he is deeply implicated in the propaganda carried on more openly by others,"( Ibid; p 241), Thus it would seem that there may well have been other organizers than the ones Siddiqui sought and found. And it is from a Bihar Kisan leader, Sahajanand, then that we find a spirited defence of the Communist Party in 1938: "It is no doubt an irony of fate that the Communist Party which represents a certain school of thought and which is legal everywhere throughout the world is illegal here in India, even in provinces administered by the Congress ministries. The Congress has all along been trying for Civil Liberties, and the freedom to propagate various idelologies is one of the main items of Civil Liberties. Therefore it passes one's comprehension how Congress ministries have tolerated this ban on the Communist Party so long. It is their bounden duty to lift it forthwith and thus to show the way to the non-Congress ministries. And by our agitation we must force the hands of the* authoritees if we are true to our profession." M A Rasul, op.cit. p 21). Here, indeed, speaks a voice of the "motive force" of history in countries such as ours. This is the history we choose to remember. This is the history the bourgeois-landlord ideologists choose to forget.