Author: Sisir Kumar Bose
Sugata Bose/
Editor(s): Sisir Kumar Bose / Sugata Bose
Publisher: Permanent Black
Year: 2004
Language: English
Pages: 244
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8178241048
Description
Between his resignation as Congress President in Calcutta on 29 April 1939 and his escape from his Elgin road home on the night of 16-17 January 1941, Subhas Chandra Bose provided India with an alternative leadership in place of the old guard represented by the Gandhian High Command. His alternative was based on a commitment to anti-imperialism and future socialism.
This volume brings together the writings and speeches of a crucial phase in Bose’s political life immediately prior to his emergence as the Netaji of India’s army of liberation. The themes dealt with here include the role of the left within the Indian independence movement, the Second World War as a conflict between rival imperialisms, and the need for Hindu-Muslim unity and Congress-Muslim League understanding.
ABOUT THE EDITORS:
SISIR KUMAR BOSE (1920-2000) founded the Netaji Research Bureau in 1957 and was its guiding spirit until his death in 2000. A participant in the Indian freedom struggle, he was imprisoned by the British in the Lahore Fort, Red Fort and Lyallpur Jail. In the post-independence period he played a key role in preserving the best traditions of the anti-colonial movement and making possible the writing of its history. He authored and edited biographies, memoirs, monographs and research papers on Netaji’s life and times. One of India’s best pediatricians, he as Director and later President of the Institute of child Health, Calcutta.
SUGATA BOSE is the Gardiner Professor of History at Harvard University. He is the author of several books on the economic, social and political history of modern South Asia.
Contents
EDITORS’ INTRODUCTION
SPEECHES, ARTICLES AND STATEMENTS 1939
Why Forward Bloc
The Role of Forward bloc
Statement on disciplinary Action
The House of the Nation-Mahajati sadan
Our Critics
The need of the Hour
The Friend’s Voice
Heart Searching
Glimpses of My Tour
Looking Back
Whither High Command?
Whom They Fight?
Our Working Committee
At It Again
A reminder
The Correct Line
Leaders Misleading 1940
An Address to Students of India
Danger Ahead
Ramgarh
Our Problem
Stem the Rot
The Bengal Tangle
The Bengal Hindu Mahasabha
The New Parade
Long Live Deshbandhu
After Paris
Forward Bloc in Perspective
My Personal Testament
My Conscience in My Own
On The Bengal Congress Tangle
LETTERS: MAJOR POLITICAL CORRESPONDENCE
Bose-Gandhi Correspondence
Bose-Nehru Correspondence
Bose-Tagore Correspondence
Letter to Sarat Chandra Bose From Prison
Jayaprakash Narayan’s Secret Letter to Netaji
Letters to Lord Linlithgow
My Political Testament and Letters to the Government
OTHER LETTERS
INDEX
SISIR KUMAR BOSE (1920-2000) founded the Netaji Research Bureau in 1957 and was its guiding spirit until his death in 2000. A participant in the Indian freedom struggle, he was imprisoned by the British in the Lahore Fort, Red Fort and Lyallpur Jail. In the post-independence period he played a key role in preserving the best traditions of the anti-colonial movement and making possible the writing of its history. He authored and edited biographies, memoirs, monographs and research papers on Netaji’s life and times. One of India’s best pediatricians, he as Director and later President of the Institute of child Health, Calcutta.
SUGATA BOSE is the Gardiner Professor of History at Harvard University. He is the author of several books on the economic, social and political history of modern South Asia.