victories reversed: the 1938-9 clash of mohandas gandhi and subhas chandra bose will woodworth ‘12
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VICTORIES REVERSED: The 1938-9 Clash of Mohandas Gandhi and Subhas Chandra Bose
Will Woodworth ‘12
The Indian National Congress
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Image Sources: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:1931_Flag_of_India.svg; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Flag_of_India.svg
Foundations of the Gandhi-Bose Dispute
• Divergent Ideologies and Visions for India’s Future
• Bose’s Socialist Vision• Gandhi’s Traditionalist Vision of “Trusteeship”
• Degrees of Militancy
• Shared Steadfastness
• “Federation”
• Breach of Party Norms
• Continuing Militancy Divide
Immediate Causes of the Clash
Image Source: “Gandhi,” in New World Encyclopedia, http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Gandhi (accessed January 31, 2012).
• Election and Aftermath
• Quit India Movement of 1942
• Timing• Scale• Uncompromising
Stance
• Conclusions
Changing the Narrative: Bose’s Continued Relevance to the INC
Image Source: Educational Resource Center, “Subhas Bose,” Educational Resource Center, http://erc-pune.org/images/stories/easygallery/resized/43/1236152625_225px-Subhas_Bose.jpg (accessed January 31, 2012).
Selected Sources
Bose, Subhas Chandra. Congress President: Speeches, Articles and
Letters, January 1938-May 1939. Edited by Sisir K. Bose and
Sugata Bose. Vol. 9 of Netaji: Collected Works. Calcutta: Netaji
Research Bureau, 1995.
Indian National Congress. INC: The Glorious Tradition: Texts of the
resolutions passed by the INC, the AICC, and the CWC. Vol. 4.
Edited by A. M. Zaidi. New Delhi: Indian Institute of Applied
Political Research, 1987.
Public and Judicial Department (Separate) Files. India Office Records.
British Library, London.
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