Samipya 1991 Vol 08 Ank 01 02

Author(s): Pravinchandra C Parikh, Bhartiben Shelat
Publisher: Bholabhai Jeshingbhai Adhyayan Sanshodhan Vidyabhavan

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In Panch Mahals the rural violence reached its pitch high. The tribals under dacoit Bhimsinh Parmar became rowdy and lawless and turned against the local usurers.30
The subalterns showed the autonomy. They took the advantage of the unruly situation in 1942 to settle their accounts with high caste peasantry. The interlocking of high caste peasants with the Congress made them important broker to reap political benefits which accrued later on, The Congress was thus obliged to dilute its policy and to turn towards poor peasants.
Footnotes
1. Ishwarlal I. Desai, Swatantrya Sangram (Surat, 1975), pp. 248-58 2. David Hardiman, Peasant Nationalists of Gujarat : Kheda District, 1917-34,
(New Delhi, 1981), p. 79 3. Shirin Mehta, Peasantry and Nationalism : A Case Study of Bardoli Satyagraha,
(New Delhi, 1984), p. 58 4. David Hardiman, The Coming of the Devi, (New Delhi, 1987), p. 209 5. Shirin Mehta, op. cit., n. 3, p. 87
6. Ibid., p. 128–35 7. Chandrashanker Bhatt, 1942 ni Krāntina Sansmarano (Rajpipala, (1974), p. 119 8. Indulal Yagnik, Atmakatha (Ahmedabad, 1970), Part IV, p. 106 9. David Hardiman, 'The Quit India Movement in Gujarat', (Gyandey Pandey, ed.);
The Indian Nation in 1942, (Calcutta, 1988), p. 80 10. Ibid., p. 79
11. Indulal Yagnik, Atmakatha : Kisan Sabha Ahmedabad, 1970), Part IV, p. 108–129
12. Ibid., p. 130 13. Sumit Sarkar, Modern India, 1881-1947 (New Delhi, 1938), p. 397 14. Ishwarlal Ichcharam Desai, Haripura Congress (Surat, 1974), p. 201 15. Ibid., p. 225
16. Indulal Yagnik, n. 8, p. 122 17. Ibid.
18. Ibid., p. 123 19. Jaykumar R. Shukla, Betalisa mā Gujarat, (Ahmedabad, 1985), p. 2 20. Ishwarlal I. Desai, Swatantrya Sangrām (Surat, 1975), p. 454 21. Ibid., p. 458
22. Chandrashanker Bhatt, 1942 ni Krantinā Samsmarano, (Rajpipala, 1974), p. 115 23. Harijan Bandhu, 3-9-42
24. Ishwarlal Desai, n. 20, p. 540 25. Azad Patrika, January 1942, Desai, n. 20, p. 544 26. Hardiman, n. 9, p. 97
27. Jaykumar Shukla, Betalisa md Gujarat, (Ahmedabad, 1985), p. 15 28. Sumanta Mehta, Atmakatha (Ahmedabad, 1971), p. 135 29. Desai, n. 20, p. 335
30. Ibid., p. 207
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