Olitical Amphlets from the Indian Subcontinent Parts 1-4
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A Guide to the Microfiche Edition of olitical amphlets from the Indian Subcontinent Parts 1-4 UNIVERSITY PUBLICATIONS OF AMERICA fc I A Guide to the Microfiche Collection POLITICAL PAMPHLETS FROM THE INDIAN SUBCONTINENT Editorial Adviser Granville Austin Associate Editor and Guide compiled by August A. Imholtz, Jr. A microfiche project of UNIVERSITY PUBLICATIONS OF AMERICA An Imprint of CIS 4520 East-West Highway • Bethesda, MD 20814-3389 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publicaîion Data: Indian political pamphlets [microform] microfiche Accompanied by a printed guide. Includes bibliographical references. ISBN 1-55655-206-8 (microfiche) 1. Political parties-India. I. UPA Academic Editions (Firm) JQ298.A1I527 1989<MicRR> 324.254~dc20 89-70560 CIP International Standard Book Number: 1-55655-206-8 UPA An Imprint of Congressional Information Service 4520 East-West Highway Bethesda, MD20814 © 1989 by University Publications of America Printed in the United States of America The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information Sciences-Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1984. TABLE ©F COMTEmn Introduction v Note from the Publisher ix Reference Bibliography Part 1. Political Parties and Special Interest Groups India Congress Committee. (Including All India Congress Committee): 1-282 ... 1 Communist Party of India: 283-465 17 Communist Party of India, (Marxist), and Other Communist Parties: 466-530 ... 27 Praja Socialist Party: 531-593 31 Other Socialist Parties: 594-617 34 Other Indian Political Parties: 618-778 618-649 Bharatiya Jana Sangh 36 650-664 Janata Party 37 665-705 Bharatiya Janata Party 38 706 Revolutionary Worker's Party 40 707-750 Swatantra Party 40 751-752 Lok Dal Party 42 753-760 All India Hindu Mahasabha 42 761-765 Republican Party of India 42 766-768 Radical Democratic Party 43 769 Dalit Mazdoor Kisan Party 43 770-778 Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh 43 Trade Unions and Membership Organizations Other Than Political Parties: 779-863 779-603 All India Trade Union Congress 44 804-818 Indian National Trade Union Congress 45 819-833 Centre of Indian Trade Unions 46 834-837 Other Trade Union Groups 47 838-840 Hind Mazdoor Sabha 47 841-861 All India Kisan Sabha (All India Agricultural Workers' Union) 47 862 All India Students Federation 48 863 Democratic Youth Federation of India 48 Part 2. Indian Infernal Politics Indian Internal Politics: 864-1517 49 Part 3. State and Regional Politics Indian Provinces: 1518-1582A 1518-1540 West Bengal 81 1541-1582A Kerala 82 m Table of Contents Reference Bibliography cont. Part 3. State and Regional Politics cont. Other Indian Provinces: 1583-1662 1583-1595 Andhra Pradesh 85 1596-1601 Assam 85 1602-1606 Goa 86 1607-1612 Bombay 86 1613-1615 Gujarat 86 1616-1618 Haryana Province 86 1619-1620 Madras 86 1621-1634 Punjab 87 1635-1637 Telangana 87 1638-1644 Kamataka 87 1645-1646 Maharashtra 88 1647 Hyderabad 88 1648 Bihar 88 1649 Tripura 88 1650 Jaipur 88 1651 Meghalaya 88 1652 Mizoram 88 1653 Mysore 88 1654 Uttar Pradesh 88 1657 Rajasthan 88 1658-1662 Nagaland 88 Part 1. Political Parties and Special Interest Groups cont. Sampradayikta Virodhi Committee: 1663-1758 89 Part 3. State and Regional Politics cont. Kashmir: 1759-1862 95 Part 4. Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Indian Foreign Affairs Bangladesh: 1863-1879 101 Pakistan: 1880-2178 102 Indian Foreign Relations: 2179-2244 118 Author Index 123 Title Index 167 IV BMT[R0OU<DTD©M Indian political pamphlets•published by political parties, central and state governments, and a wide variety of private organizations•are meat and drink to both Indian and foreign scholars. These pamphlets are a window offering a view of the basic political philosophies and organizational pursuit of power and influence in the world's largest democratic "developing" country. Now, University Publications of America (UPA) has filmed on microfiche nearly all of the Indian Pamphlet Collection in the Library of Congress and made the pamphlets widely available to researchers. To facilitate access to individual items in the collection, the microfiche is accompanied by this guide. It is organized into a Reference Bibliography, an Author Index and a Title Index. The Reference Bibliography, a numerical arrangement of the entire collection, contains complete bibliographic data for each pamphlet. The indexes cross reference both the microfiche and the Reference Bibliography by pamphlet number. The author index cites both individuals and institutions as authors. This is essential, for much Indian political literature lists the institution and not the writer as "author." No pamphlet on film can match the flavor, color, and texture of the original, but the originals do not travel well, and overuse can wear them out. The pamphlets were often printed on poor quality paper; covers and texts were usually bound together with staples, and the covers frequently are of soft paper and tear easily. Typically, the pamphlets, handled by decades of researchers, are too fragile to be circulated through interlibrary loan. Therefore, UPA has performed the dual service of preserving these historical sources while making them available to researchers worldwide. For several reasons these Indian political pamphlets are invaluable source material. A large proportion are written in English, making them accessible to those unable to read Indian languages. Thanks to India's open political system the pamphlets are frank in content and express the goals, feelings, and often strategies and tactics of their authors and publishers. They are usually well written•allowing for the hyperbole and generally self-serving character of political literature. And, because of their continuity, (parties like the Indian National Congress, the Communist party, and the Hindu Mahasabha began publishing long before independence in 1947), they represent an ongoing record of political developments. British and Indian political and literary traditions have combined to create a rich political literature. Reflecting decades of contention over political ideas and the evolving shape of Indian political institutions and relationships, Indian political literature contains more substance than political literature on the United States, Britain, France or most Asian countries. For example, in the United States the Republican and Democratic parties rarely publish literature about relations between economic classes, religious groups, and the federal and state governments. In India, these issues are the stuff of party pamphlets and frequently of government publications•particularly when different parties hold power in the central and state governments. Factions within political parties also publicly thrash out their differences in pamphlets. Introduction On federal-state government relations, for example, political parties, and state governments controlled by both Congress and non-Congress governments submitted memoranda, frequently published later, to the Administrative Reforms Commission and the Sarkaria Commission, two major official studies of center-state relations. Parties and state governments alike commented on the practices of the Congress government reigning at the center. The Memorandum on Centre- State Relations to the Sarkaria Commission by the Government of West Bengal, then controlled by the Communist Party of India (Marxist), item number 1527 in this collection, is one example of this commentary. Another example is the literature published by the Sampradayikta Virodhi Committee, whose target was Hindu and Muslim "communalism" (extremism), especially Hindu communalism. These pamphlets were not influential politically, but are, nevertheless, ideologically significant. They contain the classic anticommunal arguments made by the Congress over the years and echo the views of the left and Mrs. Gandhi's thinking. Some two dozen pamphlets describe communal riots and other confrontations, thus providing répertoriai accounts that can be cross-checked with newspapers and other sources. There are 96 pamphlets in this group, numbers 1663-1758. Economic relations among classes, the third subject matter category mentioned above, is well represented in this collection. It holds pamphlets published by trade unions taking positions on broad economic issues beyond union-management relations; pamphlets about agrarian reform• essentially a property issue and perennially the most politically significant class issue in India. Finally, pamphlets about more readily identifiable "socialist" issues are included in this collection. The topics represented include the role and efficiency of the public sector, the size and role of the private sector and of private industrial "monopolies," central planning, and so on. These pamphlets emanate from individuals and factions among Communists, Congressites, the socialist parties, Hindus, economic and social conservatives, the Swatantra party (India's version of the United States' free-market Republicans), and unattached thinkers and polemicists. Communist pamphlets on economic issues, as well as those on other issues, are rich ideologically, particularly when they express the contention between the Communist Party of India (pro-Moscow and sometimes Stalinist) and the Communist Party Marxist (which leans toward Peking). Several pamphlets reproduced among the microfiche are rare. Among these, is Item 5, Nehru-Jinnah Correspondence. Including Gandhi-Jinnah and Nehru-Nawab Ismail Correspon- dence. Other rarities are several pamphlets published