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While Gandhi preached love and nonviolence to the Bengalis, an old jailbird named Vallabhbhai Patel, who calls himself "a blind follower of Gandhiji" and whom the British Raj had imprisoned eight of the past 16 years, had 40 Indian Communists, whom he hates, clapped into jail...
...have the same objects as in past struggles. Congress workers will not go to jail. Instead, they will have strength enough this time to do the arresting themselves. When the revolution starts, our strategy will be to capture all Government offices and institutions and establish a People's Raj. British governors and pro-British officials should be jailed...
After 14 weeks India still had a government that did not represent India's major political groups. The day the mission left, Viceroy Lord Wavell appointed a temporary "caretaker" government of eight officials of the Raj (seven had been knighted in His Majesty's service, only two were Indians). The biggest step forward had been agreement by both the Congress Party and Moslem League to accept Britain's long-term plan for an Indian constitution providing a central federal government (to please the Congress Party) with strong local autonomy (to please the Moslem League). Election of delegates...
Next day he successfully talked the Working Committee of the Congress Party (of which he is the boss, though not a member) into paying more attention to the crumbs than to the cake of freedom, which the Raj was holding...
...Labor Government. The price was not yet fixed (the Company had rejected a Government offer of ?2,100,000), and assorted descendants of the original Sultan of Sulu were raising claims to the island. But there was no doubt that the grandly anachronistic rule of the last corporate Raj was doomed. Said the president of the court of directors, white-haired, parchment-skinned, 76-year-old Major General (retired) Sir Neill Malcolm: "[The Company] is not quite in accord with modern ideas...