Congress Socialist Party

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Congress Socialist Party
Founder
Left Wing
Basawon Singh (Sinha) as well as those who insisted upon Ahimsa or Nonviolent resistance (such as Acharya Narendra Deva
). The CSP advocated decentralized socialism in which co-operatives, trade unions, independent farmers, and local authorities would hold a substantial share of the economic power.

As secularists, they hoped to transcend communal divisions through class solidarity. Some, such as Narendra Deva or

Popular Front
period, the communists worked within CSP.

History

Bombay October 22–23 October 1934, they formed a new All India party, the Congress Socialist Party. Narayan became general secretary of the party, and Masani joint secretary. The conference venue was decorated by Congress flags and a portrait of Karl Marx
.

In the new party the greeting '

Kamaladevi Chattopadhyaya and Puroshottam Trikamdas organized the party in other parts of Maharashtra. Ganga Sharan Singh (Sinha) was among the prominent leaders of the Indian National Congress Party as among the founders of the Congress Socialist Party.[1]
The constitution of the CSP defined that the members of CSP were the members of the Provisional Congress Socialist Parties and that they were all required to be members of the Indian National Congress.

Members of

communal organizations or political organizations whose goals were incompatible with the ones of CSP, were barred from CSP membership.[2] The Bombay conference raised the slogan of mobilising the masses for a Constituent Assembly.[3]

In 1936 the

Orissa, communists came to dominate CSP. In fact communists dominated the entire Congress in Kerala through its hold of CSP at one point.

Congress Socialist Party possessed countrymade pipe bomb that recovered in 1943.

In 1936, the CSP began fraternal relations with the

Ceylon. In 1937 the CSP sent Kamaladevi Chattopadhyaya on a speaking tour of the island.[4]

The CSP had adopted Marxism in 1936 and their third conference in Faizpur they had formulated a thesis that directed the party to work to transform the Indian National Congress into an anti-imperialist front.[5]

During the summer of 1938 a meeting took place between the Marxist sector of the

Gandhian socialist trend led by Ram Manohar Lohia, and Achyut Patwardan. To the Anushilan marxists differences emerged between the ideological stands of the party and its politics in practice. These differences surfaced at the 1939 annual session of the Indian National Congress at Tripuri. At Tripuri, in the eyes of the Anushlian marxists, the CSP had failed to consistently defend Subhas Chandra Bose.[6]
Jogesh Chandra Chatterji renounced his CSP membership in protest against the action by the party leadership.

Soon after the Tripuri session, Bose resigned as Congress president and formed the

Pratul Ganguly, Jogesh Chandra Chatterjee and Acharya Narendra Deva. But few days later, at a session of the All India Congress Committee, J.P. Narayan and the other CSP leaders pledged not to start any other movements parallel to those initiated by Gandhi.[8] The Left Consolidation Committee soon fell into pieces, as the CPI, the CSP and the Royists deserted it. The Anushlian marxists left the CSP soon thereafter, forming the Revolutionary Socialist Party.[9]

Narayan organized the CSP relief work in

Kutch in 1939.[10]

On the occasion of the 1940 Ramgarh Congress Conference CPI released a declaration called Proletarian Path, which sought to utilize the weakened state of the British Empire in the time of war and gave a call for general strike, no-tax, no-rent policies and mobilising for an armed revolution uprising. The National Executive of the CSP assembled at Ramgarh took a decision that all communists were expelled from CSP.[11]

Members of the CSP were particularly active in the

Socialist Party of India
.

See also

References

  • Chaudhuri, Asim Kumar, 1980. Socialist Movement in India: The Congress Socialist Party, 1934-1947. Calcutta: Progressive Publishers.
  • Chowdhuri, Satyabrata Rai, 2008. Leftism in India: 1917-1947. London and New Delhi: Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Gupta, Asha, 1987. Socialism in Theory and Practice: Narendra Deva’s Contribution. New Delhi: Gitanjali Publishing House.
  • Mahendru, K C, 1986. Gandhi and the Congress Socialist Party, 1934-48: An Analysis of their Interaction. Jalandhar, Punjab: Asian Book Services.
  • Srivastava, N.M.P. Anguish, Protest and Surcharged Nationalism: A Study of the Proscribed Literature in Colonial Bihar (1912–47) (2015 ed.). Directorate of Bihar State Archives, Government of Bihar, Patna. p. 768 (at pages 378–79) (In Yuvak Sedition Case 1930–31).
    ISBN 978-93-81456-36-1
    .
  • Socialist movement in India, by Krushna Singh Padhy, P. K. Panigrahy. 1992-260 pages.

Meanwhile, the Bihar Socialist Party had been set up by Ganga Sharan Sinha, Rambriksh Benipuri and Jayaprakash. They did not use the word 'Congress' with the name of the party.

  • Agrarian movements in India: studies on 20th century Bihar, by Arvind N. Das.1982-152

pages. Intellectuals' like Rahul Sankrityayana and Nagarjuna on the one side and Congress Socialist leaders like Jaya Prakash Narayan, Rambriksh Benipuri, Ganga Saran Sinha, Awadheshwar Prasad Singh and Ramnandan Mishra, joined them.

  • History of the Indian National Congress in Bihar, 1885-1985.P. N. Ojha, Kashi Prasad Jayaswal

Research Institute.1985-934 pages. Jaya Prakash Narayan, Rambriksh Benipuri, Phulan Prasad Verma, Ram Nandan Mishra, Ganga Sharan Singh, Basawan Singh, Yogendra Shukla, Kishori Prasanna Sinha, Rahul Sankrityayana and others tried to form independent workers'

  • The Bihar Provincial Kisan Sabha, 1929-1942: a study of an Indian, by Walter Hauser.1961-

428 pages. The case of Congressmen, Socialists, Communists, and Kisan Sabhites alike. In the Kisan Sabha this leadership resided in the hands of men like Rambriksh Benipuri, Jadunandan Sharma, Ram Chandra Sharma, Ramnandan Misra.

Footnotes

  1. ^ Surendra Mohan (21 March 2009). "Mainstream, Vol XLVII, No 14 - Dr Lohia's Life and Thought: Some Notes". Mainstream. Retrieved 23 March 2009.
  2. ^ Ralhan, O.P. (ed.). Encyclopedia of Political Parties - India - Pakistan - Bangladesh - National -Regional - Local. Vol. 24. Socialist Movement in India. New Delhi: Anmol Publications, 1997. p. 58-60, 91
  3. ^
    Hyderabad
    : Orient Longman, 1998. p. 113, 115
  4. ^ Trotskyism in India (1935-1945) 1 - RH
  5. ^ a b Saha, Murari Mohan (ed.), Documents of the Revolutionary Socialist Party: Volume One 1938-1947. Agartala: Lokayata Chetana Bikash Society, 2001. p. 35-37
  6. ^ Saha, Murari Mohan (ed.), Documents of the Revolutionary Socialist Party: Volume One 1938-1947. Agartala: Lokayata Chetana Bikash Society, 2001. p. 38-42
  7. ^ Saha, Murari Mohan (ed.), Documents of the Revolutionary Socialist Party: Volume One 1938-1947. Agartala: Lokayata Chetana Bikash Society, 2001. p. 43-45
  8. ^ Saha, Murari Mohan (ed.), Documents of the Revolutionary Socialist Party: Volume One 1938-1947. Agartala: Lokayata Chetana Bikash Society, 2001. p. 44-46
  9. ^ Saha, Murari Mohan (ed.), Documents of the Revolutionary Socialist Party: Volume One 1938-1947. Agartala: Lokayata Chetana Bikash Society, 2001. p. 46-47
  10. ^ Ralhan, O.P. (ed.). Encyclopedia of Political Parties - India - Pakistan - Bangladesh - National -Regional - Local. Vol. 24. Socialist Movement in India. New Delhi: Anmol Publications, 1997. p. 61
  11. ^ Ralhan, O.P. (ed.). Encyclopedia of Political Parties - India - Pakistan - Bangladesh - National -Regional - Local. Vol. 24. Socialist Movement in India. New Delhi: Anmol Publications, 1997. p. 82
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