In this volume the Editors have put together a number of research papers and personal memoirs relating to ‘the various phases of the armed and militant movement in our country, aimed at the over¬throw of the system represent¬ed by the oppressive British and other vested interests.’ This enterprise was initiated by the Chittagong Uprising (1930) Golden Jubilee Com¬mittee of Delhi. Indeed the essays which are richest in terms of empirical data and participants’ insights are those relating to the armed anti-imperialist struggles of the ‘thirties’. However, this bulky volume was planned on a grand scale covering many other areas of the nationalist and popular movements from the late 18th century. The first part on the Chittagong uprising is follow¬ed by a collection of historical essays on peasant and tribal uprisings from 1765 to the early 20th century: the third part consists of pieces on mili¬tant uprisings in the first half of this century and the last two sections contain historical essays and reminiscences of the 1942 movement, the students’ movements, the Indian National Army and the RIN mutiny.
March-April 1985, volume 9, No 3/4