The Indian Ideology by Perry Anderson

Author:Perry Anderson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Verso Books
Published: 2013-11-04T16:00:00+00:00

1 Judith Brown, Nehru: A Political Life, New Haven 2003, p. 87.

2 An Autobiography, London 1936, pp. 72, 374, 84–85, 370–371, 507–508, 591; Brown, Nehru, p. 133.

3 An Autobiography, Boston 1957, pp. 80, 46; CWMG, Vol 25, p. 128: 11 September 1924 [Vol 29, p. 134]; Louis Fischer, The Life of Mahatma Gandhi, New York 1950, p. 331.

4 T.K. Mahadevan, ‘Foreword’ to Gupta, Gandhi and His Times, p. v.

5 The Discovery of India, New York 1946, pp. 38, 576. Henceforward DI.

6 DI, p. 568.

7 DI, p. 129.

8 DI, pp. 248–249, 211, 250, 253.

9 DI, p. 254.

10 DI, p. 362

11 Letter to Pant, 30 March 1937: see Bimal Prasad, ‘Congress versus the Muslim League 1935–1937’, in Richard Sisson and Stanley Wolpert (eds), Congress and Indian Nationalism, Berkeley-Los Angeles 1988, pp. 325–326, 329.

12 Brown, Nehru, p. 134.

13 For a comprehensive historical analysis of this configuration, and its background, see Tan Tai Yong, The Garrison State: The Military, Government and Society in Colonial Punjab, 1849–1947, New Delhi 2005, pp. 240–280.

14 The commanding study of the problems Jinnah confronted, and the ways he tried to deal with them, remains Ayesha Jalal’s The Sole Spokesman: Jinnah, the Muslim League and the Demand for Pakistan, Cambridge 1985, which rewrote the field.

15 An Autobiography, p. 469.

16 The Unity of India, pp. 14, 20, 21. In a foreword to the book, Krishna Menon assumed responsibility for the selection of texts in it, suggesting that difficulties of correspondence with Nehru, then in prison in Dehra Dun, made it impossible for Nehru, to have any say in its contents, entrusted by him to Menon. Nehru, however, made it quite clear he was satisfied with the book when he saw it: Selected Works of Jawaharlal Nehru, New Delhi 1978, Vol XI, p. 695.

17 TOP, Vol VIII, § 406, 7 February 1946, p. 796.

18 ‘Lord Mountbatten and the Perils of Adrenalin’, Eminent Churchillians, London, pp. 55–136.

19 Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre, Mountbatten and the Partition of India, Vol I, New Delhi 1982, p. 25 – interview.

20 Alan Campbell-Johnson, Mission with Mountbatten, London 1953, p. 87.

21 Jalal, The Sole Spokesman, p. 259; Desai, The Rediscovery of India, London 2011, p. 283.

22 The best analysis of this final chassé-croisé is to be found in Asim Roy,’ The High Politics of India’s Partition: the Revisionist Perspective’, Modern Asian Studies, 24, 2, 1990, pp. 403–48, who is equally critical of both parties; reprinted in Hasan (ed) India’s Partition, at pp. 125–131.

23 Copland, The Princes of India in the Endgame of Empire, Cambridge 1997, pp. 253–254.

24 Leonard Mosley, The Last Days of the British Raj, London 1961, p.127.

25 Campbell-Johnson, Mission with Mountbatten, p. 89.

26 Mission with Mountbatten, London 1952, p. 87.

27 TOP, Vol X, London 1981, § 462, p. 850: 16 May 1947.

28 For critical accounts of the the role of Congress, see Leonard Gordon, ‘Divided Bengal: Problems of Nationalism and Identity in the 1947 Partition’, in Hasan (ed), India’s Partition, pp. 306–313; and Joya Chatterji, Bengal Divided: Hindu Communalism and Partition, 1932–1947, Cambridge 1994, pp. 128, 144, 148, 250–3.

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