28 SOCIAL SCIENTIST 17 The Congress stood for political liberty only and had always sidetracked the peasants' and workers' demands for economic emancipation. Whenever the peasantry attempted to throw away the yoke of feudality, it was checked by the Congress (see SK Mittal and Kapil Kumar, "Baba Ram Chandra and Peasant Upsurge in Oudh, 1920-21", Social Scientist, June 1978). 18 NAI file 130 and KW/1930, HP, p 36. 19 Ibid, p 36. In September 1926, a pamphlet entitled An Appeal to the Toung Punjab was issued by K-idar Nath Sehgal and others on behalf of the Sabha attacking Lala Lajpat Rai as a traitor. w Yashpal, op cit, pp 92-93. 21 Sukhdeo Raj, Jab Jyoti Jagi, Mirzapore, 1971, p 27. 22 Yashpal, op cit, p 93. 2> Ibid,? 92. 2^ Ibid,? 92. 2y> Sohan Singhjosh, My Meetings with Bhagat Sin gh and on other Early Revolutionaries, New Delhi, 1976, p 13. 26 Virendra Sindhu, Amar Shaheed Bhagat Singh, New Delhi, 1974, p 19. 27 Virendra Sindhu, Tugdrashta Bhagat Singh, op cit, p 159. 2ft NAI file 130 & KW/1930, HP, p 37. 29 Ibid. •')0 Kirti Kisan party was a peasants' and workers* party with communist leanings and had its headquarters at Amritsar. 31 Sohan Singhjosh, op cit; p 11. 88 Ibid. J<< Ibid, p 15, Sohan Singhjosh says '^we did not know at tliat time that TC N Sehga3 was also a member of the N B Sabha of Lahore." •14 NAI, file 130 & KW/1930, H P, p 100. ^ Ibid. •^ Ibid. 87 Ibid. ^ Ibid. ^ Sohan Singhjosh, op cit, p 17. 40 NAI. file 130 & KW/1930, H P, p 41, 11 Ibid, p 42. The programme of the Sabha as laid down by Ram Ghandra was condemned by CKoudhry Chotu Ram, who was presiding over an important annual meeting of the provincial Zamindar League at the same place. He openly advocated the cause of Zamindars. 42 The Tribune, December 28, 1929. The conference was marked by the slogans of ^'Long Live Revolution'* and ^Long Live Bhagat Singh". ^ NAI, file 13/3/1930 (February), H P, p 17. ^ NAI, file 130 & K W/1930, H P, p 40. 45 Ibid. ^ Ibid. 47 HRA was formed in 1924 under the leadership of "old timers" Shachindranath Sanyal, Jogesh Chandra Chatterjee and Ram Prasad Bismil, who was hanged to death in the Kakori case. 48 Bhagat Singh was the leader of this meeting and it was at his suggestion that the word socialist was added to HRA, Shiv Verma, Sansmritiyan, Lucknow, 1969, p 26. 49 NAI, file 130 and KW/ 1930.HP, p 40. The workers* unions were Punjab Mechanical Engineers Union, Press Union and the Railway Porters' Union. 5° Ibid,p4\. 51 Chabil Das was the principal of National College, Lahore. He took a keen interest in the activities of the Sabha, s2 NAI, file 130 and KW/ 1930, HP. The three papers were The Wealth of rations by