Religion and Nationalism

Q3 Social Sciences

Economic and Political Weekly Pub Date : 1993-06-19 DOI:10.4324/9781315287737-33

B. Chakrabarty

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provincial assembly. But the proposed induction of Sarat Chandra Bose in the council of ministers, and that too in charge of the home department, was out of the question. He was therefore conveniently arrested under the Defence of India Rules and put away. His followers went into the government along with Huq and Mookerjee; Mookerjee was designated the finance minister. His diaries narrate in expansive detail the hollowness of so- called provincial autonomy: the ministers were little more than dummies; British civil servants, directly advising the governor and in turn directly advised by him, conducted the administration much according to their own whims. Apologists on behalf of the imperial rulers might argue that since a war was on, and the Japanese were knocking at Bengal's borders, no risk could be taken and ministers carried away by narrow patriotic emotions had to be restrained. Be that as it may, these diaries somewhat come to life while describing the tension that steadily built up on the issue. Matters were brought to a head by the wholesale arrest of Congress leaders in August 1942 and the subsequent mass upsurge all over the country. The Bengal ministers belonging to the 'progressive coalition' government watched helplessly as the police went on the rampage, picking up indiscriminately young men and women

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宗教与民族主义

省级议会。但是，让萨拉特·钱德拉·博斯进入部长会议，同时也主管内政部的提议，是不可能的。因此，根据《保卫印度法》，他很方便地被逮捕并关进了监狱。他的追随者与胡克和穆克吉一起进入了政府;穆克吉被任命为财政部长。他的日记详尽地描述了所谓的省自治的空洞:部长们只不过是些傀儡;英国的公务员们直接向总督提出建议，而总督又直接向他们提出建议，他们在很大程度上按照自己的想法来管理政府。代表帝国统治者的辩护者可能会争辩说，既然战争正在进行，日本人正在敲孟加拉的边界，不能冒险，大臣们被狭隘的爱国情绪冲毁了，必须克制。尽管如此，这些日记在描述这个问题上逐渐形成的紧张局势时，多少有些栩栩如生。1942年8月，国大党领导人被大规模逮捕，随后全国各地爆发了大规模抗议活动，事态发展到了极点。属于“进步联合政府”的孟加拉部长们无助地看着警察横冲横撞，不分青红皂白地逮捕年轻男女

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