SIR STAFFORD COMES TO INDIA 257 successes made tile British Government will not be enough to have planned tremble for their country's hold upon economy for the benefit of the common India. The Indian leaders are well people of the world, but there should aware that Sir Stafford's promises can be a large degree of democratic free mean little as long as Churchill is at dom also for the common people in the the head of the British Government. new scheme of things. There should They have not forgotten that Churchill be no personal or sectional interest." refused to see Gandhi when the latter In the two years that have passed went to England to attend the Round there has been no sign that the Table Conference. British people have any inclination to On the occasion of Sir Stafford accept Sir Stafford's high ideals. Why, Cripps' visit to Allahabad, he addressed then, should the people of India give the students of the University of much heed to any future promises Allahabad, saying: .. In this world it and fine words from him? GLOSSARY OF INDIAN POLITICAL NAMES AND TERMS All India Hindu Mahasabha-A political Chandra Bose. Striving for complete in organization having as its object the protec dependence of Indin without compl'omise with tion of the interests of Hindus. Inclined to the British. co·operate with the British with the ultimate Gandhi. lUohandas Karamchad-Known as goal of achieving independence for India. Mahatma Gandhi. Founder of the Civil All India Moslem League-A political organi Disobedience Movement. Has resigned from the zation having as its object the protection of Congress Party, but retains great inlluence. the Moseem interests in India. Favors the Harijan Movement-Created by Gandhi for Pnkistan Scheme. the uplift of the depressed classes of the Hindu All India National Congress Party-A poli community known as the" Untouchables." tical organization comprising representatives Jayakar, V. D.-A liberal Indian leader and of different religious groups striving for India's colleague of Sir Tej Bahadur Sapru. independence. Founded in Bombay in 1886. Jinnab, M.A.-President of the All India Ambedkar~Leader of the depressed classes Moslem League. Promoter of the Pakistan of the Hindu community. Scheme. Former member of the Congress Party. Amritsar Massacre-Took place on April Johnson, Louis- pecial representative of 13, 1919, when General Dyer of the British President Roosevelt in India. forces ordered his men to fire into an unarmed Linlithgow, Lord- British \ iceroy of India. assembly of Indians in Amrit at.. 379 people Nalive States-British term for those Indian were killed and 1,200 wounded. states nominally independent and ruled by Azad, Maulana AbuJ Kalam-President of the Indian princes but actually vassal states under All India Congress Party, a great Moham British tutelage. They number over 700 and medan religious leader. are of varying sizes. Azad Moslem League-A political party of Nehru, Pandit Jawaharlal-The most in Moslems oppcsed to the Moslem League but fluential member of the Congress Party and also striving for India's independence. an intellectual with leanings toward the Bose, Subhas Chandra-President of the For Soviet Union. ward Block. At present in Germany. New Delhi-Winter capital of India and Bose, Sarat Chandra-Brother of Subhas seat of the British Government in India. Chandra Bose. Ardent member of the For Pakistan-Literally "the country of the ward Block; now imprisoned by the British. pure." It comprises those territories of India Bose, Ras Behari-Io'ollowero'fSubhas Chandra which are inhabited predominantly by Mo Bose. Now living in Japan and heading the hammedans, i.e., the Punjab, Bengal, Assam, Indian Freedom Associations operating out Sind, Baluchistan. The Pakistan Scheme side of India in Japan, China, Indo-China, urges the formation of a separate Moslem Thailand. Mala~'a, and the Philippines. territory within India as distinguished from Civil Disobedience-A movement started by Hindu territories. Mahatma Gandhi for non-co-operation with the Sapru, Sir Tej Bahadar-Formerly a member British laws in India. of the Congress Party. An Indian nation Communal Question-Includes all problems, alist leader of the moderate class leaning political and otherwise, arising from the toward co-operation with Britain. different interests. of the various religious groups. Stressed by Britain as an explanation Savarbr, V.D.-A great Indian nationalist, for the necessity of British rule in India. president of the AU India Hindu Mahasabha. COD~reS8-AlI India National Congress Party. Swaraj-Properly "Purna Swaraj," meaning Forward Block-Radical wing of the All "absolute independence." India National Congress Party, from which Wanl!. Sir Archibald-Commander in Chief it seceded under the leadership of Subhas of the Allied forces in India and Burma.