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1947 Communist Party pamphlet "Princistan - Imperialism’s Nest for Tomorrow"

14 January 2016

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A 1947 pamphlet on the British Cabinet Mission of 1946 to India and the politics of its dealings with the then princely rulers of India. It was written by Romesh Chandra an intellectual associated with the Communist Party of India, in the context of the coming partition of India. [This document has long been out of print, it was recently obtained by the Delhi Historian Prof Dilip Simeon from the PC Joshi Archives. It has been digitised as part of sacw.net rare document archive]

Princistan - Imperialism’s Nest for Tomorrow
by Romesh Chandra
published by PPH, April 1947 [scanned version in PDF]