Abstract
The election victories in 1937 appeared to confirm the Congress claim to be the most powerful political institution in India. In theory, as their election manifesto had stated, the Congress had only fought the P.L.A. elections in order to destroy the 1935 constitutional settlement from the inside. The new strength of the Congress now seemed to put new weapons into the hands of the all-India leaders in their struggle against the British. The central Congress leaders were committed to preventing the federal scheme of 1935 being brought in and to obstructing its working if it were imposed. But in practice, the all-India leaders lost the ability, if not the will, to carry out these threats.
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J. Nehru to Gandhi 4.2.40 in J. Nehru, A Bunch of Old Letters (Bombay, 1958) p. 427.
See R. J. Moore, ‘British Policy and the Indian Problem 1936–40’ in C. H. Philips and M. D. Wainwright (eds), The Partition of India: Policies and Perspectives 1935–47 (London, 1970 ) p. 90.
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See Linlithgow to Amery 21.1.42. N. Mansergh and E. Lumby (eds), India The Transfer of Power 1942–7 Vol. I (London, 1970) no. 23; Amery to Churchill 22.1.42 ibid. no. 27.
See Wavell’s record of a conversation with Linlithgow in October 1943 in P. Moon (ed.), Wavell The Viceroy’s Journal (Oxford, 1973) p. 33.
See Amery to Linlithgow 10.1.42 N. Mansergh and E. Lumby (eds), India The Transfer of Power 1942–7 Fol. I (London, 1970) no. 9.
See H. V. Hodson, The Great Divide Britain-India-Pakistan (London, 1969) pp. 93–4.
H. V. Hodson, The Great Divide Britain-India-Pakistan (London, 1969) p. 94.
See Amery to Churchill 15.2.42 N. Mansergh and E. Lumby (eds), India The Transfer of Power 1942–7 Vol. 1 (London, 1970) no. 126.
See H. V. Hodson, The Great Divide Britain-India-Pakistan (London, 1969) pp. 97–103.
Amery to Linlithgow 13.2.42 N. Mansergh and E. Lumby (eds), India The Transfer of Power 1942–7 Vol. 1 (London, 1970) no. 112.
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Tomlinson, B.R. (1976). Central Congress Politics 1937–9. In: The Indian National Congress and the Raj, 1929–1942. Cambridge Commonwealth Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-02873-3_5
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