London - During these first months in Europe , Bose received an invitation to address the 3rd Indian Political Conference in London, to be held on Jan 10, 1933. But he could not attend the Conference since permission for going there was not available and Bose did not try to enter for fear of being arrested or being turned away. So Subhas could not deliver the address in prison in June 1933 - or believed he could not - therefore he sent the Lecture note to the conference where it was read out.
it presents a lengthy review of his political outlook at the time, his assessments of Gandhi's blunders
and his view of what was to be done . It was also a preparation for his much longer account to be written the following year. He was very upset with the termination of the Civil Disobedience Movement and wrote ;
He then reviewed the Congress movement from 1920 to 1933 and showed how he thought the Government had out marked Gandhi at each turn , and how he , Bose, had opposed many of Gandhi's moves . He argued that there were no common interests between Britain and India and therefore, the goal had to be Complete independence by the most rapid means. He listed the possible means , including armed force, but ruled this out for the moment because nationalist India was not armed and the Congress was pledged to non-violence.
The program for free India was not spelled out in more detail. Though some of the speech had resonances in Marxist thought Bose's call for freedom - intoxicated missionaries surely sounded like the speeches of his boyhood idol, swami Vivekananda . The India office carefully charting Bose's work in Europe, was most unhappy with this speech.and with the ways in which Bose talked about war and violence..
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