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OXFORD Part 1 Towards Freedom Documents on the Movement for Independence in India, 1941 Part 1 The Towards Freedom volumes, each edited by a distinguished scholar, bring together historical materials relating to the period 1937-47 from a wide variety of sources—official records, private and organizational papers, newspapers, and other contemporary publications available within the country. The series presents, documents relating to the activities, attitudes, and ideas of diverse classes and sections of Indian society, all of which contributed to the attainment of independence with partition. This volume systematically covers the socio¬ political developments during 1941. Part 1 of the volume consists of three chapters. Chapter 1 focusing on the constitutional politics and World War II, provides insights into India’s economic condition, war industries, defence preparations, curbs on the press and the provincial ministries. The next chapter examines national struggle and government repression through the activities of political parties, other organizations, and the condition of political prisoners. An important theme in the social history of the freedom struggle is addressed in the last chapter which studies the role of students, women, and culture in the Indian national movement. A unique resource, this collection presents unpublished documents from the national and state archives and the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, as well as extracts from English newspapers and weeklies and some collections of private papers. It sheds light on contours of the freedom movement in British India, as well as movements for civil and political rights, socio-cultural movements, and constitutional legislation. Cont’d on back flap Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2017 with funding from Public.Resource.Org https://archive.org/details/towardsfreedomdo01amit Towards Freedom ICHR: Towards Freedom General Editor Sabyasachi Bhattacharya Volume Editors Amit K. Gupta and Arjun Dev Towards Freedom Documents on the Movement for Independence in India 1941 Part 1 Edited by Amit K. Gupta and Arjun Dev With a Preface by the General Editor Sabyasachi Bhattacharya Indian Council of Historical Research OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS OXJORD UNIVERSITY PRESS YMCA Library Building, Jai Singh Road, New Delhi 110 001 Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford. It furthers the University’s objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education by publishing worldwide in Oxford New York Auckland Cape Town Dar es Salaam Hong Kong Karachi Kuala Lumpur Madrid Melbourne Mexico City Nairobi New Delhi Shanghai Taipei Toronto With offices in Argentina Austria Brazil Chile Czech Republic France Greece Guatemala Hungary Italy Japan Poland Portugal Singapore South Korea Switzerland Thailand Turkey Ukraine Vietnam Oxford is a registered trademark of Oxford University Press in the UK and in certain other countries Published in India by Oxford University Press, New Delhi © Indian Council of Historical Research 2010 The moral rights of the author have been asserted Database right Oxford University Press (maker) First published 2010 All All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from Oxford University Press. Enquiries concerning reproduction outside the scope of the above should be sent to the Rights Department, Oxford University Press, at the address above You must not circulate this book in any other binding or cover and you must impose this same condition on any acquirer ISBN-13: 978-0-19-806537-1 ISBN-10: 0-19-806537-X Typeset in Baskerville BE Regular 11.5/14 at Le Studio Graphique, Gurgaon 122 001 Printed in India at De Unique, New Delhi 110 018 Published by Oxford University Press YMCA Library Building, Jai Singh Road, New Delhi 110 001 Contents General Editor’s Preface vii Editor’s Introduction by Arjun Dev xv List of Abbreviations xxiii Calendar of Documents xxv 1. Constitutional Politics and War Measures 1 A. Constitutional Politics 1 B. War Measures 99 C. Responses to Changes in War Situation 174 D. Provincial Ministries 208 I. Sind 208 II. Punjab 226 III. Assam 241 IV. Bengal 250 V. Orissa 275 2. National Struggle and Government Repression 288 A. Congress 288 B. Left Parties and Groups 429 I. Communist Party of India 429 II. Congress Socialist Party 528 III. Radical Democratic Party 556 IV. V.K. Krishna Menon and India League, UK 563 V. Forward Bloc 575 C. Other Organizations 578 D. Condition of Political Prisoners 613 3. Students’ and Women’s Movements 709 A. Students 709 B. Women 796 C. Culture 820 Biographical Notes 838 Index 874