United Provinces’ Politics 1938: Congress in Mid-Term: Governors’ Fortnightly Reports and other Key Documents

United Provinces’ Politics 1938: Congress in Mid-Term: Governors’ Fortnightly Reports and other Key Documents

By- Lionel Carter (comp. and ed.)

This is the second 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. There are 97 items in total.

Congress had been in power in the UP for just under six months when this volume opens and within a further six weeks a crisis had arisen over the release of political prisoners. The Ministers submitted their resignations on 15 February 1938 but with compromise and diplomacy on all sides they had returned to office ten days later.

Thereafter the Congress Ministry concentrated on a wide-ranging programme of legislative and administrative reform at the centre of which was a bill for tenancy reform. As the year progressed leftward pressures and communal difficulties increased and the Governor became concerned at the weakened position of the Premier, G.B. Pant.

Editor’s Introduction; Abbreviations; Principal Holders of Office, 1938; Summaries of Documents; Map of the United Provinces; 1. Documents for 1 January–5 March 1938; 2. Documents for 9 March–17 May 1938; 3. Documents for 27 May–16 September 1938; 4. Documents for 26 September–31 December 1938; Appendices; Index.

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  978-81-7304-840-4    2009   420p.   Rs.1045/ pounds 60

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