TRUTH ABOUT INDIA’s FREEDOM STRUGGLE (Part V)
TRUTH ABOUT INDIA’s FREEDOM STRUGGLE (Part V) (by Ved Pal, IRSE; FIE; FIPWE; MBA; Former Principal Chief Engineer and Former Chief Administrative Officer, Ministry of Rlys, Govt of India) 12.1.27 The Revolutionary Socialist Party (RSP) and Revolutionary Democratic Party (RDP) Many members of the Anushilan movement had been attracted to Marxism during the 1930s whilst serving long jail sentences due to studying Marxist–Leninist literature. A small section joined the Communist Consolidation (a radical communist organization that existed during 1935-38, founded by the prisoners of the Cellular Jail who got influenced by the philosophy of Marxism) , and later the Communist Party of India . By the end of 1936, the Anushilan Marxists at the Deoli Detention Jail in Rajputana (now Rajasthan) drafted a document formulating their political line which was then distributed amongst the Anushilan Marxists at other jails throughout the country. When they got...