Gandhi's letter to P.C. Joshi, 11 June 1944 — printed in The Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi

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Date: 1944-06-11 (the letter); page reproduced from a modern printed edition
From: M.K. Gandhi, Juhu
To: P.C. Joshi [Puran Chandra Joshi], General Secretary, Communist Party of India
File reference: Source cited by the editors as "Correspondence between Mahatma Gandhi and P. C. Joshi, p. 2"
Page: printed p. 310
Document type: PRINTED BOOK PAGE (not an archival scan) — The Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi, p. 310, item 174

Signatories

M.K. Gandhi—Printed signature in the published edition; no autograph present (this is a typeset page, not a manuscript)

Transcript verbatim

310             THE COLLECTED WORKS OF MAHATMA GANDHI

[tail of the preceding item:]

We shall be leaving for Poona on the 15th. Abha will be with
us. She will stay with me so long as I remain out.

                                        Blessings from
                                        BAPU

        From a microfilm of the Gujarati: M.M.U./II. Also C.W. 8609. Cour-
tesy: Narandas Gandhi


                174. LETTER TO P. C. JOSHI

                                                JUHU,
                                                June 11, 1944

MY DEAR JOSHI¹,

        I had expected a prompt reply to the questions I had raised
at our meeting². Meanwhile some additional questions have arisen
which please, answer when you answer my first questions.

        1. What is the meaning of "people" in "people's war"? Does
it mean war on behalf of India's millions, or the Negroes in East,
South or West Africa, or the Negroes of America, or all of them?
Are the Allies engaged in such a war?

        2. Are the finances of the Communist Party, represented by
you, subject to public audit? If they are, may I see them?

        3. It is stated that the Communist Party has actively helped
the authorities to arrest leaders and organizers of labour strikes
during the last two years.

        4. The Communist Party is said to have adopted the policy
of infiltrating the Congress organization with a hostile intent.

        5. Is not the policy of the Communist Party dictated from
outside?³

                                        Yours sincerely,
                                        M. K. GANDHI

        Correspondence between Mahatma Gandhi and P. C. Joshi, p. 2

        ¹ Puran Chandra Joshi, General Secretary of the Communist Party of
India
        ² According to the addressee, it was early in June.
        ³ For excerpts from the addressee's letter in reply to this, vide Appen-
dix XVI.