The communist party of India guided by instructions from Moscow, was most forthright in support for British war efforts. As a gesture of goodwill towards its war ally USSR, UK removed the illegal status of CPI in 1942. In August 1942, CPI decried the Quit India movement and helped the British suppress the movement. CPI also condemned Subash Chandra Bose's INA and instead supported Jinnah's Pakistan resolution. In 1946, when the cabinet mission came to India, they put forward a plan that there should be no united India at all but 17 soverign independent states.
K.K. Chaudhari in his Book Quit India Revolution: The Ethos of Its Central Direction:
Chaudhari says that "
on many occasions the Communists were indeed more royalist than even the King of England". In submissions to Sir Reginald, Joshi showed what a splendid job he and his party were doing to break up the Quit India Movement. Chaudhari writes that the 120-page report "
could not have been improved by any other collaborator of the British or by any quisling". Joshi was so anxious to prove the CPI's utility to the British rule that he claimed that he was doing a better job of stemming the Quit India Movement, of denouncing Subhas Babu and leaders of the Congress underground. than the government itself! Notes Chaudhari: "The
tone and contents of Joshi's performance report reveal crystal clear what the CPI had done to sabotage the 1942 movement."
On the Communist Support for Creation of Pakistan he writes
"By incessant and vociferous repetition Communists proclaimed the thesis that (1) India was not one nation but a collection of several separate nationalities. (2) the demand for Pakistan is a just and democratic one because Hindus would oppress them in future; (3) the Muslim League itself has become progressive and secular and Jinnah himself was secular and anti-religious and (4) the Congress must concede to the Muslims the right to self-determination."
PC Joshi, one of the tallest leaders of the Communist Party of India wrote explaining the communist position on support for Pakistan movement :
“We were the first to see and admit a change in its character when the League accepted complete independence as its aim and began to rally the Muslim masses behind its banner. We held a series of discussions within our party and came to the conclusion in 1941-1942 that it had become an anti-imperialist organization expressing the freedom urge of the Muslim people that its demand for Pakistan was a demand for self determination and that for the freedom of India, an immediate joint front between the Congress and the League must be forged as the first step to break imperialist deadlock. A belief continues to be held that League is a communal organization and what Mr. Jinnah is Pro-British. But what is the reality? Mr. Jinnah is to the freedom loving League masses what Gandhiji is to the Congress masses. They revere their Qaid-e-Azam as much as the Congress does the Mahatma. They regard the League as their patriotic organization as we regardthe Congress. This is so because Mr. Jinnah has done to the League what Gandhi did to the Congress in 1919-1920 i.e., made it a mass organization.” Congress and the Communists, PC Joshi, People’s Publishing House Bombay, p 5.
Role of the Communist Party of India in Pakistan Movement with reference to the right of self -determination
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