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BEING tHE RESOLUTIONS PASSED BY THE CONGRESS, THE ALL INDIA CONGRESS COMMITTEE AND THE WORKING COMMITTEE DURING THE PERIOD BETWEEN FEB. 1938 TO JAN. 1939

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Publi~hed by J. B. Kripalani, General Secretary, All India Congress Committee, S\\·araj Bhawan, Allahabad PRICE As. 8 CONTENTS

PAGES Annual Session : Haripura 1-17 All India C..ongress Committee Meetings 18-24- \'\'orking Committee Meetings zs-85 Index 86-92

Resolutions Passed at the 51st Sessio~t of the Congress held at VITHALNAGAR-HARIPURA, GUJRAT February 19, 20 a11d 21, 1938

1. CoNDOLENCE This Congress expresses its sense of sorrow and loss at the deaths of Shrimati Swaruprani Nehru, Sir Jagdish Chandra Bose, Shri Sarat Chandra Chatterji, Shri Manila! Kothari and Shrimati Parvati Devi, Shri Jogendra Nath Barua, Shri Harendranath Munshi, Shri Buchi Sunder Rao, Shri Arya Dutt Jogdan, Shri Adi Narayan Chettiar, Shri Jaishankar Prasad, Shri Ram Das Gaur, Shri Kshirode Chandra Deb, Shri Guizar Singh, Pt. Narayan Rao Khare, Shri Himanshu Bose, Smt. Sarmada Tyagi and Shri Heramba Chandra Maitra.

2. GuiDALLO OF AssAM This Congress demands the immediate release of Guidallo, the heroic N aga woman, who raised the banner of freedom in the distant forests of Assam in 1932 and who has now been suffering imprisonment for more than si.'fC years.

3. BRmsH GuiANA This Congress sends its greetings to the Indians of Bri­ tish Guiana on the occasion of the celebration of the cen­ tenary of the arrival of the first Indian settlers in this South American colony and sends them its good wishes for their advancement and progress.

4. INDIANS OVERSEAS This Congress views with alarm the rapidly growing 2 deterioration in the status, pos1t10n and rights enjoyed by the. Indians in South and East Africa including Kenya, Uganda, Tanganyika, Zanzibar, and also in the islands of Mauritius and Fiji. This Congress condemns the new economic policy now being pursued by British Imperialism for intensifying its ex­ ploitation of the Colonies and Dependencies which is exempli­ fied in the formation of the monopolist Clove-Growers' Association in Zanzibar and in such measure as the Tan­ ganyika Native Produce Bill, East Africa Transport Projects, the reservations of the highlands in Kenya for the white population and the degrading treatment of Indians in Mauritius and Fiji. This Congress whole-hearted1y associates itself with the struggles of overseas Indians to maintain even their present position and status in the territories in which they have settled. This Congress assures its fellow-countrymen overseas of its full sympathy and help and expresses its readiness to take all actions within its power to ameliorate their condition. This Congress further wishes to assure the original in­ habitants of South and East Africa that the demand of the Indian settlers is not conceived in any spirit of hostility towards them but is put forward to prevent the common exploitation of both the Africans and the Indian settlers by British Imperialism.

5. INDIANS IN ZANZIDAR

The Congress expresses its appreciation of the response of the to the appeal made on behalf of the Congress to refrain from the use of cloves, and that the boycott of trade in cloves in Zanzibar by the Indian mer­ chants has been complete and satisfactory. .The Congress congratulates the Indians in Zanzibar and the clove-mer­ chants in India on the manner in which they maintained this boycott. The Congress however regrets that the question of the rights of Indians in Zanzibar for internal and export trade 297

has not yet been satis