20 SOCIAL SCIENTIST Leaders like B G Tilak, B C Pal, Lala Lajpat Rai and G R Das also wanted the principles of Bolshevism to be preached and acted upon in India.8 The dismayed young patriots vigorously searched for new alternatives to fight the imperialists and to attain independence. Ultimately their eyes were fixed on the Bolshevik ideals and upon the USSR as a state nearest to their dreams. The Naujawan Bharat Sabha was formed to channelise the militant nationalist movement on ideological lines in March 1926 by Bhagat Singh.9 In this task, he was ably assisted by Bhagwati Charan Vohra, Dhanwantri, Ehsan Elahi and others.10 Ram Krishna and Bhagat Singh became its first president and secretary respectively. Bhagwati Gharan Vohra was appointed its propaganda secretary.11 The leftist Congressmen like Saifuddin Kichlew, Satyapal, Kidar Nath Sehgal, Lala Pindi Das and Lala Lal Ghand Falak extended their sympathies and cooperation to the Sabha.12 Objectives Tlie Sabha had two-fold objectives—social and political. The social objectives comprised the popularization of swadeshi goods, plain living, physical fitness, inculcation of the sense of brotherhood and the stimulation of interest in Indian languages and civilization.13 The Sabha also had a definite political programme and soon these "social objects of the Sabha" became "merely a clo,ak for the dissemination of revolutionary ideas."14 The political programme of the Sabha included the following: a) to establish a complete independent republic of the labourers and peasants of the whole of India; b) to infuse a spirit of patriotism into the hearts of the youths of the country in order to establish a united Indian nation; c) to express sympathy with and "to assist the economic, industrial and social movements which, while being free from communal sentiment, are intended to take us nearer to our ideal, namely, the establishment of a complete independent republic of labourers and peasants"; d) to organise the labourers and peasants.15 It is significant that along with British imperialism it wanted to see the end of other imperialisms also. The Sabha movement had a wider perspective; it believed in the freedom of other enslaved nations also.16 Unlike the Congress, the Sabha had a definite aim and a clear ideology to offer, namely, the establishment