Wednesday, April 22, 2015

Bose in Jealgora, Near Dhanbad, Bihar -1939 [correspondence with Gandhi]

( jealgora,Near Dhanbad, Bihar)
Bose went into seclusion with relatives at Jealgora, near Dhanbad in Bihar to try to recover his health. He spent more than a month there to shake off his 'strange illness - it was a severe influenza. Some pundits, including their family  Pundit  Asoke nath shastri and some astrologers knowing tantra-Mantra also came. Bose himself was dubious since he believed that he had a rationalistic mind. But friends pressed amulets on him to help fight the illness. He wrote;
"...In amoment of weakness, I yielded and  accepted a couple of rings, and four amulets." But after some time he relieved of the two rings and four amulets.
While in Jealgora he corresponded heavily with Jawahar Lal, Mahatma and others. sarat Bose also wrote number of letters to gandhi and Jawaharlal to remove the crisis due to Pant's resolution. Bose wrote to Gandhi in a very polite manner. He wrote;
" People who are bitterly opposed for various reasons to Sadar Patel and his group, still believe that you can take a dispassionate and non-prtisan view of things . To them you are a national figure - above the parties and groups - and you can therefore restore unity between the warring elements.. If for any reason the confidence is shaken ...and you are regarded as a partisan, then God help us and the Congress."
Bose had correspondence with Gandhi from 24th March to 6thgot reply from Gandhi, either by letter or by Telegram from Birla house , Delhi. Bose wrote 24 times to Gandhi requesting him to intervene to remove the stalemate condition aabout formation of Working Committee due to Pant's resolution.
Subhas wanted permission to release their correspondence which was accorded by Gandhi. Hence Subhas released his correspondence with Bapuji consisting of  44 pages ( pages 126 to 170) in the book Cross Roads published by Asia Publishing House, In which Bose written letters or sent telegram numbering 24 and in reply to that Gandhiji issued letters or sent telegrams numbering 19.
These correspondences did not yield any result. The intention of Gandhiji was expressed in the letter written by Gandhiji from Birla House , New Delhi, dated 2nd April 1939 which said;
"The views you express seem to me to be so diametrically opposed to those of the others and my own that I do not see any possibility any possibility of bridging them. I think that each school of thought should be able to put forth its views before the country without any mixture. . And if this is honestly done , I do not see why there should be any bitterness ending in civil war."
                                                          

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