United Provinces’ Politics, 1939: The End of the First Congress Ministry: Governors’ Fortnightly Reports and other Key Documents

United Provinces’ Politics, 1939: The End of the First Congress Ministry: Governors’ Fortnightly Reports and other Key Documents

By- Lionel Carter (comp. & ed.)

This is the third volume in a series which provides the texts of the Fortnightly Reports sent by the Governors of the United Provinces to the Viceroy. Other key documents sent by the Governors or their Secretaries are also included. The volume covers the last ten months of the first Congress Ministry in the U.P. and the last eleven months of Sir Harry Haig’s term as Governor. 110 documents are printed in total.

1939 was a very disturbed year in the U.P. with a marked increase in communal tension and violence. The Muslim League was growing in strength as well as bodies like the Mahasabha, Youth League and Forward Bloc. The Ministry itself was destabilised as a result of pressure from the left-wing elements within a Congress and the dissatisfaction of the wider electorate.

In September war broke out between Britain and Germany. The volume documents how the negotiations to try to secure Congress cooperation were viewed from the U.P. The negotiations were unsuccessful and in November the Ministry resigned and the Governor took charge of the province.

For more than ten years, Lionel Carter was a member of the team (led by Nicholas Mansergh) which produced the British Government’s series of Documents on the Transfer of Power to India, 1942-1947. From 1980 until 1999, Carter served as Secretary and Librarian of the Centre of South Asian Studies at the University of Cambridge.

ISBN  978-81-7304-868-5    2010   420p.   Rs.1050/ pounds 60

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