Subhash Chandra Basu Samagra 8 by Subhash Chandra Basu [Hardcover]

Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, the main architect of the Indian revolution, was not only an ideal leader and orator but also a philosopher, thinker, and powerful writer.
Throughout various phases of his life, in different situations and countries, he wrote extensively on numerous subjects. His writings and speeches are so widely dispersed that compiling them into a complete collection is a complex and laborious task, requiring thorough research. With direct assistance from the Netaji Research Bureau, Ananda Publishers has undertaken this task. As a result, not only is it possible to publish these writings in an organized, multi-volume format, but rare and inaccessible documents have also been included from the Research Bureau’s own archives. These documents include information, letters, writings, speeches, copies, photographs, and statements that have not been published elsewhere and are unlikely to be in the future.

Seven volumes of Subhas Chandra Bose’s complete works have been published previously. The first volume includes his unique autobiography Bharat Pathik, 208 letters, essays for the youth, and genealogical details. The second volume contains his seminal work Bharater Mukti Sangram, complete with revisions, contemporary reviews, and an appendix with an interview where he explains his views on fascism and communism. The third volume includes about 200 letters by and to Bose from 1923 to 1932, along with his speeches titled Gorar Katha and Notuner Shondhane. The fourth volume features Bengali translations of two major English essays he wrote during his imprisonment in Burma, discussing the history of the textile industry and the significance of boycotting foreign cloth. This volume also includes many statements and speeches on various social issues, an essay titled Mantrabichar, and some letters.

The fifth volume gathers more than 100 speeches and writings from 1929 to 1933, during which he was recognized as a unique and emerging national leader and a prominent advocate of leftist politics in India. It includes his speeches as the Mayor of Kolkata and his emotional farewell to the people of Bengal. The sixth volume contains 180 letters exchanged between Subhas Chandra Bose and Emilie Schenkl, along with an appendix containing letters from Subhas to Sarat Chandra and from Sarat to Emilie. The seventh volume includes letters, speeches, and essays from a critical period in Bose’s life.

In February 1933, a frail, ailing man was brought by ambulance and placed on a stretcher onto a ship bound from Bombay to Europe. By November 1937, this same man was nominated as the Congress President and flew from Kolkata to Europe on a KLM flight. At this significant juncture of his career, he was forced into exile in Europe. The letters, speeches, and essays from this time include more than 200 previously unpublished letters and several key political essays such as The Anti-Imperialist Struggle and Communism, Europe Today and Tomorrow, Japan's Role in the Far East, and Arguments For and Against Ministerial Acceptance.

In 1938, as the elected president of the Indian National Congress, Subhas Chandra Bose was at the peak of his political career. He was re-elected after a bitter election in which he defeated Gandhi’s candidate, leading the struggle against colonialism and for socialism without compromise. Ultimately, however, faced with intense opposition from Congress’s right-wing members and Gandhi, he resigned. This volume compiles his letters, essays, articles, and speeches from January 1938 to immediately after his resignation in April 1939, including his famous Haripura Speech, where he discussed the strengths and weaknesses of British imperialism and outlined his vision for India’s socio-economic restructuring. Other speeches and writings cover socialism, national planning, science, constitution-related discussions, Hindu-Muslim relations, the role of women, and European politics.

This volume also includes important correspondence with figures such as Mahatma Gandhi, Rabindranath Tagore, Muhammad Ali Jinnah, and Jawaharlal Nehru. Readers interested in national and international politics will find this period’s writings profoundly enriching.