What does this sub think of 1984 and Bhindranwale?

Not even close. From Plassey to Partition

Loyalty was duly rewarded by the government, as the TISCO got the Steel Protection bill passed in the assembly, and the Bombay textile industry benefited from the Indo-Japanese treaty providing for a quota system for the sale of Japanese goods in India. The major dilemma, however, was for those who had sided with the Congress, as they were alarmed by the rise of socialism under Jawaharlal Nehru, Subhas Bose and Jaya-prakash Narayan, who formed in October 1934 their Congress. Socialist Party. However, as Aditya Mukherjee (1986) has emphatically argued, this red scare did not throw them into the arms of imperial authorities. Their strategy to contain socialism was to patronise the right-wingers within the Congress, i.e., people like “Vallabhbhai, Rajaji and Rajendrababu” who were, in the words of Birla, “all fighting communism and socialism”124—and finally, to throw in their lot behind Gandhi.

On the other end too, the issue of federation became the cause of a major rift between the Congress old guards and their left-wing critics and it came to a head in the period between the Haripura Congress in March 1938 and the Tripuri Congress in March the following year. It centred on the re-election of the Congress president Subhas Chandra Bose, whose militant anti-federation stand had irked the conservatives. Bose contested the election defying Gandhi’s wishes, and emerged victorious defeating Gandhi’s own candidate, Pattabhi Sitaramayya. As B.R. Tomlinson describes it, the election “was fought out in ideological terms—‘right’ versus ‘left’, ‘pro-Federation’ versus ‘anti-Federation’, ‘pro-Ministry’ versus ‘anti-Ministry’”.15 Gandhi took it as his personal defeat and twelve of the fifteen members of the Working Committee resigned immediately. The showdown came at the Tripuri Congress where a resolution was passed censoring Bose for raising allegations against the Gandhians that they would sell out on the federation issue. Gandhi asked him to constitute his own Working Committee and refused all cooperation. Bose tried to patch up a compromise but failed, and ultimately at the AICC meeting in Calcutta in April 1939 he resigned and was quickly replaced by Rajendra Prasad. Bose then formed his own Forward Block, as a left party within the Congress; but it did not gain much strength outside his own province of Bengal. When he staged a protest against the AICC decision to ban Congressmen from participating in civil disobedience without the prior permission of provincial Congress committees, the Working Committee at Gandhi’s insistence punished him for indiscipline; in August 1939 he was removed from all Congress positions—notably the presidency of the Bengal PCC—and was banned from holding any executive office for three years. Later in January 1940, Gandhi wrote to C.F. Andrews describing Subhas as “my son”—but a “spoilt child of the family” who needed to be taught a lesson for his own good.

The guy was such a militant leftist. But he was also a great admirer of military discipline culture thus his love for fascism. He obviously did not love the exclusionary aspects given how his own Azad Hind Fauj was inclusive of all.

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