The Indian Struggle (contd-1)

The Indian Struggle is Bose's effort to give his version of the recent political history of India. It is concerned especially with the changing strategies of the Congress and the Raj. It contains sharply  etched views of the top leadership of the Nationalist movement.
The book contained praise as well as sharp criticism of Gandhi. Bose saw Gandhi as the head of an older reformist group of nationalists , It was as if he were indirectly borrowing Marxist categories, identifying his political allies and himself with the masses of Indians  and seeing  Gandhi , who he admitted was accepted by the masses as their leader, as the head of the oppressive forces. He viewed Gandhi and the Gandhian high command and the Government of India as restraints on the radical and militant nationalist forces with which he identified. These radical forces had a rebel mentality , rejecting the authority of the Government but also questioning the authority  and the wisdom of the dominant leadership of the nationalist movement.
One feature of the Congress to which Bose moat objected was the lack of criticism of Gandhi, through his various twists and turns. Bose wrote

The leaders of this category were Maulana Azad, C.R.Rajagopalachari, and Sardar Patel etc.  Bose tried to come to terms with Gandhi's hold on the masses , which none had been tried to challenge or break. Bose wrote; 

Being personally religious, Bose took the side of reason, science and modern values . Bose condemned the numerous blunders of the Mahatma , specially Gandhi's lack of planning for the Second Round Table Conference. The root of Gandhi's error was his confusion between Gandhi's roles as political leader and world preacher. Bose thought that Gandhi's success was due to ' effective fusion of religion and politics.'      

But Bose created some confusion at the end of his book by saying on ideological question as ' synthesis of communism and fascism' which he explained in an interview with R. Palme Dutt.  

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