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PART I |
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| GENERAL INTRODUCTION |
xi - xxi |
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PART II |
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PREVAILING CONDITIONS
IN INDIA: AN OVERVIEW |
1 -370 |
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Chronicle of Events |
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| 1. |
A Month of Political Protests
and Police Reprisal |
2 |
| 2. |
Gandhi-Irwin Peace Talks
and Petition for Commutation of Bhagat Singh's Death Sentence |
10 |
| 3. |
Red Flag's Repeated Hostile
Greetings to Mahatma on March 16th, 25th and 31st for Failure
to Get the Release of Meerut Prisoners |
14 |
| 4. |
Communal Tensions |
19 |
| 5. |
House of Commons Debate
on India. Mr. Patel Warns |
25 |
| 6. |
Provincial Conference |
30 |
| 7. |
Trade Union Congress Breaks
up in Confusion on 4 July |
33 |
| 8. |
State Oppression and Political
Reaction |
37 |
| 9. |
Gandhi meets British Textile
Workers and Trade Unionists on 23rd September |
40 |
| 10. |
British Labour Party Sympathetic
to India's Stand Reported on 6th October |
46 |
| 11. |
The Peasant Question Raised
on the 15th and 19th November |
51 |
| 12. |
The Peasants' Struggles
Reported in December 1931 |
56 |
| 13. |
1932 Opens with Political
Protests at State Repression |
61 |
| 14. |
State Repression Intensifies
Against the Nationalists |
72 |
| 15. |
Workers Observe Meerut Day
at the Lal Maidan - Bombay |
77 |
| 16. |
Further Arrests and Convictions |
81 |
| 17. |
Workers Celebrate Labour
Day on 26th May and Demand Release of All Political Prisoners |
87 |
| 18. |
Political Activity Intensifies |
92 |
| 19. |
Communal Tensions |
95 |
| 20. |
Violence on the Increase
against Imperialists |
101 |
| 21. |
Drive Against Untouchability
and Against the White Scourge |
104 |
| 22. |
Repression and Resistance |
108 |
| 23. |
Repeatedly the Oppressors
shot at |
110 |
| 24. |
Apprension Over the Outcome
of the Round Table Conference |
112 |
| 25. |
The British Pretence: Oppression
and Resistance |
115 |
| 26. |
'We Support India's Cause
for Self Government But we are not Going to Sacrifice British
or Imperial Interests', Hoare |
124 |
| 27. |
Congress not Unlawful Association,
but its Activities are Unlawful |
129 |
| 28. |
The White Paper Condemned.
Gandhi Does not Approve Ambedkar's Plan |
136 |
| 29 |
Repraisal - Fast - Repraisal |
141 |
| 30. |
Bose's Statement Press Censorship |
147 |
| 31. |
India Office Hostile to
Bengali Hindus |
150 |
| 32. |
Gandhi and other Leaders
Arrested |
154 |
| 33. |
Bengal Muslims Oppose Re-opening
of the Communal Award |
159 |
| 34. |
Again Muslims Oppose Communal
Awards |
163 |
| 35. |
Hindu-Muslim Communalism
Condemned |
170 |
| 36. |
The First Session of All-India
National Trades Union Federation |
174 |
| 37. |
Police Fire on Workers in
Bombay |
178 |
| 38. |
Military Marches in Midnapur |
182 |
| 39. |
A Magistrate and Policemen
Killed |
186 |
| 40. |
Unemployment of Workers,
Textile Strike Begins |
189 |
| 41. |
Rioting in the East Indian
Railway Coalfield. Two Workers Killed in Police Firing |
195 |
| 42. |
Police and Fire Arms used
for Control, Unemployed Attack Police Station and Set Free
Comrades |
201 |
| 43 |
Gandhi Welcomed Formation
of a Socialist Party within Congress But did not Approve
of its Notion of Class Struggle. Communist Party Banned |
203 |
| 44. |
Election Concerns |
208 |
| 45. |
Political Parties Joking
for Power |
213 |
| 46. |
Regional Conference Galore |
216 |
| 47. |
Punjab Socialists Condemn
Congress |
219 |
| 48. |
Labour Amendment Ignored
in the Joint Committee Report Debate in Commons |
223 |
| 49. |
Madras Holds Provincial
Labour Conference |
230 |
| 50. |
Motion on Removal of Ban
on Red Shirts Carried |
233 |
| 51. |
Military Fire on Mob in
Karachi |
238 |
| 52. |
Attack Against Congress
Socialists |
243 |
| 53. |
Reform in Commons: Secret
Police in India |
248 |
| 54. |
A Police Officer Murdered |
253 |
| 55. |
Terrorism Plagues the British |
254 |
| 56. |
All-India Joint Labour Board
Formed at the Joint Conference of AITUC and NTUF |
258 |
| 57. |
The Trade Union Congress
Hold an Anti-Repression Day |
263 |
| 58. |
Bombay Special Power Bill
Passed: To Curb Communism in Industrial Cities which Support
Workers Struggles |
266 |
| 59. |
Hindu Sacred Books Burnt |
269 |
| 60. |
Trade Union Congress in
Nagpur |
272 |
| 61. |
Unemployment Committee's
Report |
276 |
| 62. |
Search for Proscribed Material |
280 |
| 63. |
Censure Motion Against Police
Attack with Lathis |
283 |
| 64. |
Hindu-Muslim Riot in Poona |
289 |
| 65. |
Efforts made for Closer
Cooperation between Congress and Trade Union Movement -
Nehru |
293 |
| 66. |
Serious Floods Occurred
at many Centres of North India |
296 |
| 67. |
Development of Agricultural
Research Begins in ICAR |
298 |
| 68. |
Necessity for Cooperation
in Agricultural Development Stressed by the Viceroy |
300 |
| 69. |
Viceroy Urging a Revision
of 'Repressive' British Policy in Palestine |
301 |
| 70. |
Charges Framed by a Special
Tribunal, Alipore to try 28 Persons for Conspiracy Against
King Emperor |
303 |
| 71. |
Socialists Party Appeals
to Congress to Protest Against the New Constitution |
306 |
| 72. |
'Qualified Freedom is no
Freedom: Qualified Independence is Moonshine' - Mr. Bhulabhai
Desai |
308 |
| 73. |
Model Mills Declares a Lockout,
3,000 Operatives Thrown out of Work |
311 |
| 74. |
Chamber of Commerce Calcutta
Suggests Reciprocity in Trade Union Relation between Britain
and India |
313 |
| 75. |
Jute Mills on Strike |
315 |
| 76. |
Nine more Jute Mills Closed
Down in Barrackpore Making 29,500 Operatives Idle |
318 |
| 77. |
Jute Mills Strike Begins
to Ease. Cotton Industry Worker Threaten |
322 |
| 78. |
'The Cult of Terrorism has
Definitely Impeded National Progresses' - Pt. Jawahar Lal |
324 |
| 79. |
Congress/Ministries Formed
in the Provinces |
326 |
| 80. |
Chief Minister of Orissa
Addresses Railway Worker to Explain the Ruling in Party's
Attitude to Labour Struggles |
330 |
| 81. |
15,000 Kisans Marched with
Both National and Red Flags Shouting Slogans Down with Imperialism |
336 |
| 82. |
Congress Leaders Address
Labour Rally at Calcutta's Deshabandu Park |
338 |
| 83. |
Gandhi Unhappy Over Labour
Protests in Ahmedabad |
343 |
| 84. |
Jayprakash Narayan Protests
at Bihar Congress Putting a Ban on the Kisan Sabha |
345 |
| 85. |
The Government Continues
to Misuse an Ordinance |
347 |
| 86. |
Indian Economic Conference
Discusses Methods to Tackle Depression |
348 |
| 87. |
World Trade in 1932, Still
Very Bleak |
349 |
| 88. |
Conciliation and Arbitration
in Industrial Disputes |
351 |
| 89. |
World Unemployment Situation |
352 |
| 90. |
Unemployment is Worsening
in 1931 |
353 |
| 91. |
Co-Operative Societies in
India Conference of Registrars |
355 |
| 92. |
Indian National Social Conference
on Life and Labour |
356 |
| 93. |
A Meeting on Agricultural
Improvement in India |
356 |
| 94. |
The Economic Situation:
Signs of Revival in India |
357 |
| 95. |
The Economic Situation:
Signs of Recovery in India |
357 |
| 96. |
The Economic Situation:
Agricultural Policy in India |
359 |
| 97. |
The Economic Situation:
Industrial Development in India |
361 |
| 98. |
Economic and Social Policy
in India: Conditions in Bengal |
362 |
| 99. |
Interprovincial Economic
Conference in India on Common Plan of Action to Cope with
Depression |
364 |
| 100. |
Conditions of Work in 1930
- 31 |
366 |
| 101. |
Indian National Congress:
Concern for Wage Labour |
369 |
| 102. |
Cottage Industries in India:
Views of the Bengal Government |
370 |
