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Adhikari, Gangadhar, 8, 28, 224–232 Bihar, 210, 235 Adorno, Theodor, 27 Bilga, Bhagat Singh, 79, 89, 97, 128–129, Afghanistan, 27–29, 52–55, 60–62, 85, 88, 144 91, 118, 151–153, 180, 186, 211 Bloch, Ernst, 15, 17, 66, 68 Ahmad, Muzaffar, 106, 145, 199 Bolshevik Revolution, 3, 10, 28–29, 43, 73, Ahmed, Habib, 93 90, 100, 113, 183, 191 Ahmed, Z.A., 222 Promise of, 56, 58–59, 63, 65, See Akal Fauj, 157 Threat of, 4, 62 Akali (paper), 160 Bombay, 46, 49, 51, 63, 92, 109, 124, 136, Akali Fauj, 174 145, 159, 189, 203, 210, 229 Akali leaders' Case, 159–160, 195 Bose, Subhas Chandra, 82, 117, 193, 211 Akali Movement, 25, 40, 105, 150–162, Boym, Svetlana, 252 188 Bradley, Ben, 92 Algeria, 84 Brazil, 89 All India Kisan Committee (AIKC), 147 British Indian Army, 32, 38, 46, 102, 119, All India Students Federation (AISF), 124 148, 157, 217–218 Amritsar, 28, 40, 108, 114–115, 119, 142, Bukharin, Nikolai, 84, 191 150, 152, 158–159, 164, 167, 202, Burma, 91, 180, 220, 224, 247 230, 235, 238 Amsterdam, 88 Calcutta, 46, 189, 196, 212, 220, 239, 242 Andamans, 13 Canada, 1, 30, 34, 36, 40, 89 Angora, 88 Canadian American Press Society of the Anti-Imperialist League, 27, 202 Doaba, 40 Antwerp, 50 Cawnpore Conspiracy Case, 145, 188, 190 Argentina, 1–2, 67, 77, 89, 128, 144 Central Akali Dal, 171 Asli Qaumi Dard (paper), 40 Central Sikh League, 113, 152, 154, Azad Punjab, 229 162–163, 165 Chain, Singh Chain, 120, 127, 130, 134, Babbar Akali, 157 136 Baku Congress, 72–73 Chajjalwadi, Gehal Singh, 238 Bangladesh, 7 Chakrabarty, Dipesh, 16 Barkatullah, ‘Maulvi’,60–65, 73, 161 Chattopadhyay, Suhashini, 81, 123 Bengal, 106, 117, 122, 124, 126, 131, 145, Chattopadhyaya, Virendranath, 38, 64, 73, 185, 209–210, 235, 239, 245, 248 86, 88, 96 Benjamin, Walter, 1, 15, 254 Chauri Chaura, 105 Berlin, 38, 41, 67, 73, 82, 85, 88, 90, 92, Chettiar, Singaravelu, 106 108, 114, 209, 212, 247 Chhina, Achhar Singh, 78, 89, 209–213, Berlin India Committee (BIC), 38, 41, 73, 221–222, 235 92 China, 41–43, 58, 60, 73–80, 86–88, Bhagat Singh, 107, 116 109–113, 180, 209, 214, 247 Bhakna, Sohan Singh, 20, 33, 43, 63–64, Chinese Anti-Imperialist League, 27 238 Chopra, V.D., 241, 243

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Churchill, Winston, 219 Dhoot, Naina Singh, 1, 66–68, 76–79, Civil Disobedience Movement, 153, 167, 85–96, 101, 119, 128–130, 195–197, 175, 203 239–240 Cold War, 5 Din, ‘Munshi’ Ahmed, 242 Comintern: see Communist International Direct Action Day, 234 Communal Award, 170, 205 Dushanbe, 211 Communism in India (book), 4–6, 26 Dutch East Indies, 180 Communist International, 1, 24, 32, 52, Dutt, Clemens Palme, 85 102, 104, 110, 130, 134, 140, 144, Dutt, Kalpana, 126, 195–196 146, 152, 201–205, 209–224, 249 Dutt, Rajani Palme, 8, 85, 234 Dissolution of, 213–216 Support and patronage of, 66–101 East Africa, 1, 32, 36, 89, 185 Threat of, 177–194 Egypt, 72, 84 Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB), Elections 1936–37, 206 29, 99, 178, 180, 189, 191, 219 Elections 1945–46, 231 Communist Party of India (CPI), 5, 11, Engels, Friedrich, 97, 216 24–26, 28, 82, 90–91, 104, 123–125, England, 43, 102, 108, 220 139, 144–147, 196, 199–216, Executive Committee of the Communist 241–247 International (ECCI), 213; see 1945–46 electoral politics of, 227–235 Communist International During Partition, 235–240 Gender politics of, 120–136 Faiz, Ahmad Faiz, 245 Peoples' War line of, 216–224 Fanon, Frantz, 64 Support for Pakistan of, 224–227 Faqir of Ipi, 53 Communist Party of India (Marxist), 11, Federated Malay States, 180 28, 65 Fiji, 67, 87, 89, 141 Communist Party of Pakistan, 139, First World War, 3, 26, 28–29, 47, 53, 61, 242–243 69–70, 92, 148, 214, 249 Communist Party of the United States of Forward Bloc, 212 America (CPUSA), 52, 66, 86 France, 185, 216, 219 Communist University of the Toilers of the Freeman, A.C., 77 East (KUTV), 73–82, 93, 123 French Indo China, 180 Congress for Cultural Freedom (CCF), 247 Friends of Freedom for India, 48 Congress Socialist Party (CSP), 147, 169, 172, 203–204, 208, 223, 228 Ganavani (paper), 106 Curzon, William, 41 Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand, 49, 60, 98, 115, 153, 193, 198, 230, Dang, Satyapal, 136 246 Dang, Vimla, 120–127, 134–136 Geneva, 41, 88 Dange, S.A., 92, 222 Germany, 26, 28, 37–38, 56, 67, 71, 82, 88, Danial Latiﬁ, 233 211–212, 216 Das, Bina, 131, 133–134, 195–196, 234, Ghadar (paper), 30, 36, 160, 210 244 Ghadar di Gunj (book), 1, 36 Das, Taraknath, 49 Ghadar Party, 1–2, 19, 23–25, 42, 48–49, Delhi, 35, 63, 72, 117, 138, 183, 242, 245 66–67, 73, 102–114, 118, 140–144, Deni, Viktor, 70 154–172, 188, 210, 222 Deoli detention camp, 130, 195, 222 Emergence, politics, and activism of, Desh Bhagat Qaidi Pariwar Sahaik 28–43 Committee, 129, 142 Ties with the Comintern, 86–92 Detroit, 52 Ghate, S.V., 222 Dev, Acharya Narendra, 203 Ghosh, Durba, 19 Dhaka, 247 Gilgit, 209, 211 Dhingra, Madan Lal, 41 Gordin, Michael, 17, 253 Dhoot Kalan, 1 Goswami, Manu, 16 Dhoot, Jawala Singh, 96 Government of India Act 1935, 206

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Great Britain, 29, 72–73, 140, 182, 191, Jallianwala Bagh, 108, 114, 150–151, 157 194, 216, 219 Jamaica, 84 Gurdwara Reform Movement: see Akali James, Langford, 189–193, 201 Movement Jameson, Fredric, 22, 251, 253 Guru-ka-Bagh, 158–159, 162–164 Japan, 36, 60, 72, 76, 84, 88, 103, 220 Java, 141 Hamburg, 50, 67, 92 Jhelum, 158 Hamdam, Hazara Singh, 77 Jinnah, Muhammad Ali, 228 Hankow, 36, 88 Joglekar, K.M., 145 Hardayal, Lala, 35–41, 64 Johannesburg, 36 Hijrat Movement, 28, 53–54, 56, 93, 105, Josh, Sohan Singh, 90–91, 106, 114–117, 144 127–130, 136–146, 155, 159–161, Hindu Mahasabha, 232 167, 171, 195–208, 210, 221, 237, Hindu–German Conspiracy, 37 240, 255 Hindustan Ghadar Dhandora (paper), 42 Joshi, Puran Chand, 8, 196, 221, 223, 234 Hindustan Socialist Republican Army, Jullundur, 87, 119–120, 158 106 Hindustani Young Men’s Association Kabul, 27, 41, 73, 88, 118, 209–212 (Vancouver), 40 Kairon, Jaswant Singh, 78 Hitler, Adolf, 67, 219 Kairon, Pratap Singh, 78 Hobsbawm, Eric, 71 Kamenev, Lev, 97 Hobson, John, 71 Karachi, 247, 254 Hong Kong, 36, 51, 87, 141 Kashmir, 248 Hoshiarpur, 119, 158 Kaur, ‘Bibi’ Raghbir, 126, 206 Hughes, Langston, 209 Kautsky, Karl, 71, 197 Hundal, Iqbal Singh, 89, 221 Khairi, Jabbar, 72 Hunza, 247 Khairi, Sattar, 72 Hussain, Ghulam, 105 Khalistan, 229 Hussain, Jauhar, 254 Khalsa Diwan Society, 34 Hutchinson, Lester, 195, 199 Khalsa Diwan Society (Vancouver), 40 Khan, Amanullah, 53, 88 Ibrahim, Mirza Muhammad, 242 Khan, Ayub, 254 Ideology and Utopia (book), 23 Khan, ‘Dada’ Amir Haider, 63–65, 92–96, Iftikharuddin, Mian, 233 100, 129, 141, 189, 241–244 Imperialism, The Highest Stage of Capitalism Experiences as a lascar, 43–52 (pamphlet), 71 Experiences in Moscow, 76–86 Independent Hindustan (paper), 40 Khilafat Movement, 24, 28–29, 53, 55–56, India, 5 105, 157 India Home Rule Society, 41 Kirti (paper), 103, 109, 116, 136–141, 161, India House, 35, 41 197 India Ofﬁce, 9, 41, 50, 183 Kirti Kisan Party, 24, 170, 184, 202, 207, Indian National Congress, 108, 120, 154, 217, 222, 246 163, 174, 193, 240 Everyday politics of, 127–136 Ties with leftist movements, 114–117, Factionalism within, 142–147 166–170, 199–206, 216–239, 245–247 Founding of, 102–109 Indian Penal Code, 187, 189 Funding of, 140–142 Indian Political Intelligence (IPI), 179 Gender politics of, 120–136 Indian Sociologist (paper), 41 Internationalism of, 108–114 Industrial Workers of the World, 51, 85 Intersections with Akali politics, 151–166 Inquilab (paper), 105 Organization of, 117–120 International Labor Defense, 27 Politics of, 108–120 Ireland, 72, 113 Publications of, 136–140 Irish Workers Rights, 27 Ties with the Comintern, 86–92, Isemonger, F.C., 35–36 209–213 Italy, 88 Kirti Lehar (paper), 129, 137

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Kisan Sabha, 202 Meerut Conspiracy Case, 116, 128, Kishen, Ram, 210 143–146, 178, 207 Kitchlew, Saifuddin, 168 Effect of, 199–206 Kollontai, Alexandra, 83 Trial, 188–199 Komagata Maru incident, 33 Meharally, Yousuf, 203 Koselleck, Reinhart, 3, 16, 148, 252 Mehnat Kash (paper), 137 Krestintern, 75, 189 Mexico, 87–88 Krishnavarma, Shyamji, 41 Mian Iftikharuddin, 168, 244 Kropotkin, Peter, 197 Molotov–Ribbentrop pact, 216 Kumari, Sushila, 134, 136 Moscow, 1, 57, 64–65, 105, 110, 120, 128, Kuomintang, 42, 78, 187 140–146, 177–181, 185–187, 209–215, 222 Labour Kisan Gazette (paper), 106 Ofﬁcial line of: see Communist Lahore, 29, 35, 105, 107, 115, 119, 123, International 158, 212, 230, 236 Muhajirs, 53–54, 57, 72–73, 80, 94–95 Lahore Conspiracy Case Muslim League, 26, 120, 168, 174, 201, First, 29 242, 248 Lal Communist Party, 246 CPI and the Pakistan movement, Lal Dhandora (paper), 137 224–235 Lal Jhanda (paper), 137, 217 Lascars, 4, 24, 101 Nagar, 247 Experiences, politics, and activism of, Nagoke, Udham Singh, 238 43–52 Naidu, Sarojini, 38, 81 League Against Imperialism, 88, 108, 187, Nairobi, 36 189, 191 Nambiar, A.C.N., 81 League of Struggle for Negro Rights, 27 Narayan, Jayaprakash, 8, 203, 222 Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich, 3, 60, 69–73, 95–98, National Student League, 27 133, 145, 191, 196–197, 215–216, 219 National Students Federation (NSF), 254 Leningrad, 67 Naujawan Bharat Sabha (NJBS), 106, 114, Linlithgow, Victor Alexander, 216 142–147, 153–154, 167, 202 Lohia, Ram Manoher, 203 Naujawan Kirti Kisan (paper), 137 London, 9, 35, 41, 50, 91, 183, 185 Nehru, Jawaharlal, 85, 113, 117, 167, 193, Loomba, Ania, 125, 135, 249 245 Ludhiana, 119, 158 Nehru, Motilal, 85, 193 Lyallpur, 119, 153, 158 New Era (paper), 137 New York, 27, 41, 48–49, 51, 66, 186 Maclean, Kama, 125 New Zealand, 89 Madras, 106 NKVD (The People’s Commissariat for Majid, M.A., 143–144, 202 Internal Affairs), 97 Malviya, Madan Mohan, 100 North America, 1, 4, 87, 141–142, 152, Malwa Sudharak Society, 40 158, 186 Manilla, 36 Migration to, 32–36 Manjapra, Kris, 251 Politics in, 27–41, 44–52 Mannheim, Karl, 23 NWFP, 87, 117, 185 Mansur, Feroze-ud-din, 94, 142, 221 Marine Workers Industrial Union, 27 Operation Barbarossa, 215, 218–219 Marx, Karl, 61, 97, 191, 216, 219 Orissa, 117 Marxism, 12, 17, 22, 29, 76, 78, 85, 90, 95, Ottoman Turkey, 37 103, 119, 130, 144, 195–198, 203, Overstreet, Gene, 4–6, 26 214, 239 Masani, Minoo R., 203 Paciﬁc Coast Khalsa Diwan Society, 40 Masses of India (paper), 106 Pakistan, 5, 255 Mazdoor Kisan Sabha, 154 Pakistan and National Unity (CPI Mazdur Kisan (paper), 137 pamphlet), 224 McKay, Claude, 84 Pakistan Communist Party, 237, 242

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Pan Asiatic League, 187 Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), 245 Pan Paciﬁc Trade Union Secretariat, 187 Rawalpindi, 46, 158, 241, 243 Panama, 1, 51, 88–89, 141 Rawalpindi Conspiracy Case, 243 Pan-Asianism, 4 Rayya, 150 Pan-Islamism, 4, 44, 53, 57, 60, 62 Red International of Labour Unions Paris, 35, 41 (RILU), 75, 102, 189, 191 Parmanand, Bhai, 19 Reed, John, 177, 198 People’s War (paper), 215–216, 223–224, Revolutionary histories 227 Archive of, 8–14 Persia, 58, 60, 62, 87, 91, 118, 180 Historiography of, 4–8 Persits, M.A., 95 Writing of, 18–22 Peshawar, 46 Rising Youth (paper), 137 Peshawar Conspiracy Case, 94, 188, 190 Roosevelt, Franklin D., 219 Pheruman, Darshan Singh, 25, 150–162, Rosario, 2, 89 167–170, 173–176 Roy, Manabendra Nath, 8, 64, 72–73, Philippine Anti-Imperialist League, 27 83–88, 93–99, 105, 183, 215 Poland, 216 Russia, 4–5, 52–63, 77, 80, 88, 93–95, 106, Popular Front, 98, 204 110, 113, 141, 181 Prakash, Gyan, 17, 253 Pratap, Raja Mahendra, 43, 85 Saifuddin Kitchlew, 167 Priestland, David, 97 San Francisco, 30, 38, 210 Progressive Writers’ Association (PWA), San Francisco Conspiracy Case, 38, 103 139, 242 Satyapal, 167–168 Provisional Government of India, 60, 73, Savarkar, Vinayak Damodar, 41 85 Scott, David, 252 Publications Second International, 69 Interception of, 186 Second World War, 25, 209, 213, 216, 249 Of Kirti Kisan Party, 136–140 Sepassi, Muhammad Ali, 85, 88 Punjab, 1, 24–25, 40, 46, 49, 67, 78, 88–91, Service, Robert, 214 95, 185, 188, 206, 209, 223, 241 Shanghai, 36, 42–43, 49, 51–52, 78, 103, Akali-Communist politics in, 150–176 109 Communism in, 102–149 Shiromani Akali Dal, 118, 169–171, 201 During the Second World War, 217 Intersections with Kirti politics, 150–166 Ghadar rebellion in, 29–30, 36–37 Politics during Partition, 229–235 Migration from, 32 Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Partition, 235–240 Committee (SGPC), 152–158, Restrictions in, 202 169–172 Revolutionary movement in, 105–108 Siam, 180 Run-up to Partition, 227–235 Sikh American Doada Educational Society, Punjab Kisan Committee, 147, 174, 231 40 Punjab Kisan League, 202 Sikh Central Board, 152, 154 Punjab Riyasti Praja Mandal, 163 Sindh, 117 Punjabi Suba Movement, 174 Sindhi, Ubaidullah, 73 Puri, Harish, 30, 39 Singapore, 1, 36, 67, 102 Singh, ‘Master’ Tara, 165, 172 Qaumi Jang (paper), 227 Exchange with Gandhi, 230 Quit India Movement, 174–175, 228 Singh, Bhag, 159 Singh, Bhagat, 106, 165, 196 Radek, Karl, 71, 73, 84 Singh, Bujha, 78, 128–129 Rai, Lala Lajpat, 193 Singh, Gurmukh, 27, 88 Raipur Dabba, 87 Singh, Harbans, 78 Rajagopalachari, Chakravarti, 174 Singh, Kartar, 78 Rajguru, Shivaram, 107 Singh, Prithvi, 27 Ram Kishen, 210 Singh, Rattan, 1, 39, 67, 73, 85–90, Ranadive, B.T., 222 101–103, 109

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Singh, Santokh, 39, 73, 87–89, 101–103, Tokyo, 41, 51 109–110, 116, 131, 137–138, 159, Transport Workers Union, 27 161, 195 Traverso, Enzo, 252 Singh, Sardara, 78, 96 Trotsky, Leon, 73, 84, 97 Sinkiang, 180, 247 Turkey, 88 Slattery, J., 35–36 Turkish Education Society, 27 Smedley, Agnes, 48 Sons of Bharat, 40 Uganda, 141 South East Asia, 1, 32, 68, 103, 185, 220, Union of the Oppressed Peoples of the East, 222, 224, 247 187 Soviet Union, 23–26, 44, 93–101, 191, 194, Unionist Party, 232, 234 199, 204, 207, 237, 251 United Council of Working-Class Women, Experiences in, 54–60, 75–86 27 Promise of, 2–4, 110, 124, 216 United Front (CPI line), 227 Revolutionary infrastructure of, 73–86 United Provinces, 117, 184–185, 210, 235 Support of, 39, 73–75, 140 United States of America, 1, 66–68, 76–78, Support to, 209–226 84, 89, 92, 102, 118, 185, 247 Threat of, 179–184, 247–248 ‘Dada’ Amir Haider Khan’s experiences Travel to, 2, 52, 56–60, 66–69, 86–92, in, 47–52 103, 178, 209–211 Ghadar politics in, 27–40 Spencer, Herbert, 41 United States of India (paper), 40 Stalin, Joseph, 72, 75, 86, 95–100, 145, Usmani, Shaukat, 68, 76, 86, 93–95, 100, 191, 211, 213–217, 225 106, 183 Stalinabad, 210 Travels of, 52–65 Straits Settlements, 180 Utopias Subaltern Studies, 8 Imagination, ethics, and politics of, Surjeet, Harikishen Singh, 65 14–23, 147–149, 249–254 Swatantar, Teja Singh, 89, 221, 237–238, 242, 246 Vancouver, 36, 40, 87 Swatantra Party, 174 Vanguard of Indian Independence (paper), 106

Talwar, Bhagat Ram, 212 White, Milner, 198 Tarikh-i-Hind (book), 19 Wilde, Oscar, 102 Tarn Taran, 158, 164 Wilson, Woodrow, 61 Tashkent, 57, 60, 73, 80, 93–94, 144, 190 Windmiller, Marshall, 4–6, 26 Tehran, 118 Workers and Peasants Party, 144–145 Thapar, Sukhdev, 107 Workers Welfare League of India, 187 The Principle of Hope (book), 17 Third International: see Communist Yorke, R.I., 190, 194 International Third Period, 98 Zaheer, Sajjad, 139, 242 Tibet, 180 Zetkin, Clara, 84 Tientsin, 36 Zia-ul-Haq, Muhammad, 251 Tilley, Helen, 17, 253 Zinoviev, Grigory, 72–73, 84, 97, 102, 191