This is a study of the Indian National Congress, the first
political association to approach the government of India at an
all-India level. The Congress became the most important national
party in twentieth century India, and the whole history of the
freedom movement is closely bound up with its fortunes. National
politics, however, were influenced by regional and local affairs.
In the early twentieth century the Indian Congress was split
between the ?Moderates? and the ?Extremists?. Dr Johnson argues
that this division was closely related to existing rivalries
between politicians in the provinces, and that provincial interests
determined their national point of view. Because the early Congress
depended so much for its regular organisation on men from Bombay,
party lines in western India were particularly important in
determining the course of the struggles between the parties in the
National Congress. The unpublished letters and diaries of the
protagonists in these disputes have enabled Dr Johnson to examine
this theme in detail. This is the first book to stress the need for
study of regional and local politics as an integral part of the
history of the Congress. Its revelation of the complex connections
between parochial, provincial and all India politics adds a new
dimension to our understanding of nationalism in South Asia.
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