Radical nationalism in India, 1930-42 : the role of the All India Congress Socialist Party

The central problem to which this thesis addresses itself is the attempt of the All India Congress Socialist Party (CSP) to establish itself as a radical nationalist alternative to both the Gandhian leadership of the Indian National Congress and the Communist Party of India (CPI). The problem has two main dimensions: one, the role of the CSP as a left-wing of the Congress, in relation to its leadership and rank and file; the other, the CSP's role as an autonomous party outside the Congress, in its relations with the Communists and other radical groups in non-Congress mass organisations. Continued in thesis ...</p