02228nam a22002417a 4500 20211218115010.0 211218b ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 8185304351 AL eng 23 324.254 SHOO Arun Shourie 11834 Only Fatherland: Communists, Quit India and the Soviet Union New Delhi ASA Publications 1991 viii,204 p. HB 22x15 cm.15 150.00 ₹ 150.00 Are ideologies a pair of binoculars that enable us to see far? Or are they a pair of blinkers that keep us from seeing even that which is at hand? How is it that communists; equipped as they are with the one great Theory that explains everything; fumble ever so often in seeing the obvious? How did the Theory lead them to declare the Second World War as an 'Imperialist War' one day; and a 'People's War' the next? How did it lead them to undertake to sabotage the Quit India Movement for the British? How did it lead them to trumpet the demand for Pakistan 'better than the Muslim League'? To declare in 1947 that India had not really become independent? To insist that Pandit Nehru was just "a running dog of imperialism"? To launch an insurrection in 1949 on the premise that India was ripe for an armed revolution? To fumble so much in their response to the end of the communist bloc? Arun Shourie; one of the most respected commentators on current affairs in India today; illustrates the malady by reconstructing what the communists did during the Quit India Movement. In the process he uncovers the secret negotiations they conducted and the secret understanding they struck with the British; the reports they submitted to the imperial rulers about the work they were doing to subvert the movement Mahatma Gandhi had launched. He concludes with a review of the reactions of Indian communists to the break-up of the Soviet empire; showing how their mental make-up and habits have not changed in the six decades since independence. Political Process 11835 Naxalite Movement 11836 Communist Party of India 11837 SHOURIE (Arun) 11838 ddc GF 220975 220975 0 0 ddc 0 0 PS AL AL 2013-03-24 0 324.254 SHOO GF00732 2021-12-18 00:00:00 2021-12-18 GF