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Provincial fortnightly report (Bihar) — Communist and student activity [composite image of two fragments]

Provincial report

Scan of document 14: Provincial fortnightly report (Bihar) — Communist and student activity [composite image of two fragments], n.d.
Photocopy bearing a NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF INDIA watermark. Heavy ink blotting obscures the side-heading and one term in the upper fragment. Both fragments open and close mid-sentence.

Contrast-enhanced derivative. The scan shown by default is the unmodified original, so any reading can be checked honestly.

Date
n.d. [c. mid-November 1942 — reports the celebration of Russian Revolution Day on 7 November]
From
[Government of Bihar]
To
[Government of India, Home Department]
Classification
[not shown]
Page
two separate fragments mounted as one image — an unnumbered upper fragment (manuscript "76") and the head of p. 5 (manuscript "77")
Document type
Fortnightly report extract (Provincial Government to Government of India)

Signatories

None — this sheet bears no signature.

Marginalia & annotations

Manuscript "76" beside the upper fragment and "77" above the lower. Manuscript annotation in the upper fragment, illegible. Red archival "14".

Transcript verbatim

[UPPER FRAGMENT]

no-rent campaign or reviving the old agitation in respect of
[word obscured by ink blot] lands.

        [side-heading obscured: Communists].- Rahul Sankrityana and Karjanand Sharma have held
a series of meetings in the Monghyr district and delivered
speeches blaming British policy for the disorders in India, but
pointing out that freedom could not be obtained by sabotage.
Japanese brutality was condemned and emphasis was laid on the
communist programme of securing the release of Congress leaders,

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[LOWER FRAGMENT]

                                -5-

the establishment of Hindu-Muslim unity and the formation of a
national Government to resist Japanese aggression. Russian
Revolution Day was celebrated on November 7 in several places in
the province. At some of the meetings held by the party, the
'repressive action taken by Government to crush the Congress
movement' and recent Government orders concerning students were
condemned. In Jamshedpur the Radical Domocratic Party held a
meeting at which along with an increase in wages, the establishment
of a 'mazdoor raj' was advocated.

        Students - Student activities were mostly confined to
picketting distribution of leaflets and small processions which