Indian Socialist Movement

This page provides the history of Indian Socialist movement, life and relevancy of socialist movement’s thinkers and leaders.

History of Indian Socialist Movement

• Fascinating Fifty Five Faces of the Indian Freedom Struggle  – An introduction to Qurban Ali’s book, “Founders of the Socialist Movement in India” – Prof. Anand Kumar (Courtesy of Janata Weekly) 
• Book Extract: Socialist Movement in India Is a Saga of Splits and Differences – Authored by Qurban Ali  (Courtesy of The Wire)
• 75 Years of Indian Socialist Movement– Qurban Ali
• Congress Socialist Party – Origin & Profile, from 1943 
• Congress Socialist Party’s Separation from the Congress (1946-48) – A socialist Point of View – Narendra Kumar Singh & Anand Prakash Singh
• We Build for Socialism – Platform of the Socialist Party (Socialist Party at Ranchi, July, 1951.
• The Praja Socialist Party of India -1934-59 – Hari Kishore Singh
• The Praja Socialist Party of India – 1951-72 – Lewis P. Fickett, JR.,
• The Birth of India’s Samyukta Socialist Party, 1964– Benjamin N Schoenfeld (Courtesy of Pacific Affairs)
• Major Socialist Parties of India in the 1967 Election – Lewis P. Fickett, JR.,
• Political deliberation and democratic reversal in India (1975-77)  – Kristin Plys
• “The Janata (people’s) Struggle: The Finest Hour of the Indian People-1977 – Dhirendra Sharma
• Congress Socialist Party at a Glance – Qurban Ali
• Socialist Organisation – Qurban Ali
• Short History of Young Socialists League / Samajwadi Yuwak Sabha / Samajwadi Yuvjan Sabha– Qurban Ali

India’s Emergency(1975-77) and Shah Commission of Inquiry Report 

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• Shah-Commission-of-Inquiry-Report-I
• Shah-Commission-of-Inquiry-Report-II
• Shah-Commission-of-Inquiry-Report-III

Critical Essays on Socialist Movements & Leaders 

• Madhu Limaye, a great socialist – Centenary speech by Justice Sudarshan Reddy new…
• Remembering the Two Madhus – Raghu Thakur 
• A Tribute to Madhu Limaye – Birth Centenary Celebrations & Other Contributions – Amarendra Dhaneshwar 
• Setting the Record Straight – Madhu Limaye, his personality, political career and contribution – A dispassionate, ring-side, view by his son, Aniruddha Limaye
• Congress Socialists and the Politics of Language in India – Shubhneet Kaushik
• Blunders of Communists & Socialists – Qurban Ali
• History of Communists-Socialists Interactions – A.G. Noorani
• Nehru and Socialist Movement in India (1920-47) – C.P. Bhambhri
• Socialists and the Partition of India – Dr. Girja Shankar
• Jawaharlal Nehru and his Socialism – Jag Mohan (from JSTOR)
• Socialist Thought of Jawaharlal Nehru – V Venkata Rao (from JSTOR)
• Left Wing Unity and the Indian Nationalist Movement: M. N. Roy and the Congress Socialist Party – John Patrick Haithcox 
• The Janata (people’s) Struggle: George Fernandez Underground Bulletin” when he was Chairman of Socialist Party of India
• We build for Socialism: The Platform of the Socialist Party
• George Fernandes-Under Ground Bulletins
• Jayaprakash Narayan: An Idealist Betrayed – M.G. Devasahayam (Courtesy of ‘The Hindu Centre’)

Socialist Parties, reports of annual conferences

• Constitution, & Resolutions of the 1st Conference of the Congress Socialist Party  – October 1934, Bombay, Maharashtra 
• Report of the 6th Annual Conference-Socialist Party  – March 1948, Nasik, Maharashtra 
• Report of the 7th Annual Conference of Socialist Party – March 1949 Patna, Maharashtra
• Report of the 8th National Conference of the Socialist Party – July 1950, Madras)
• Report of the 2nd National Conference of Praja Socialist Party  December 1955, Gaya, Bihar)
• Report of the 4th National Conference of – Praja Socialist Party   – May 1958, Poona, Maharashtra 

Swami Vivekananda – Asia’s First Socialist

• Socio-Political Views of Swamy Vivekananda – Binoy K. Roy
• Asia’s First Socialist– Vivekananda Thunders
• Rationalist, Scientific, Socialist Vivekananda – Dattaprasad Dabholkar
• Vivekananda-The Revolutionary Swami– Ashok Celly
• Vivekananda-Warrior Saint – Ajeet Jawed
• Before G20 Themes was Bhagat Singh’s Idea of ‘Vasudeva Kutumbakam’ – S. Irfan Habib (Courtesy of Janata Weekly)

On Socialism

• Why Socialism? – Albert Einstein
• Mahatma on Socialism – Qurban Ali
• Socialism – Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy – Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Leaders of Socialist Movement

• Acharya Narendra Deva, a profile – Qurban Ali
• Acharya Narendra Deva – Life & Politics – Dr. Prem Singh
• NarendraDev-HariddevShamra – Haridev Sharma
• NonViolentAction-SocialistRadicalism – Narendra Deva in India’s freedom movement – Anil Nauriya
• Narendra Deva Memmorial Lecture– Sri Achyut Patwardhan
• JPs Writings – Qurban Ali
• JP- Second Freedom Movement– M. G. Devasahayam
• JP-Profile-Prof. Bimal Prasad published in 1947
• Emergency: Jayaprakash Narayan’s rare letters to Indira Gandhi – Sandhya Ravishankar
• Yusuf Meherally-Freedom Fighter Par Excellence – G. S. Bhargava
• Profile of Chandra Shekhar– Qurban Ali
• Profile-KarpooriThakur– Qurban Ali
• Profile-AcharyaRanga – Qurban Ali
• Ranga – A Stalwart​​​​​​​​​​ – Prof. N.G. Ranga Nov 7th 1900-6th June 1995)- Prof. Hiren Mukherjee​
• Profile of Madhu Dandavate – Qurban Ali
• Profile of Madhu Limaye – Qurban Ali
• Profile_GeorgeFernandes – Qurban Ali 
• Profile of Surendra Mohan – Qurban Ali
• Profile of Raj Narain – Qurban Ali
• Remembering Raj Narian– Prof. Anand Kumar
• Profile of Satyanarayan Reddy– Qurban Ali
• Profile of Capt Abbas Ali – Qurban Ali
• Profile of Rabi Ray – Qurban Ali
• Captain Abbas Ali – A Life Worth Remembeing  – Dr G.G. Parikh
• NathPai – Pearl in Parliamnent –
• Remembering P. Viswambharan – Prof. B. Vivekanandan
• Prem Bhasin: A Profile – Qurban Ali
• Prem Bhasin: Chronicles of Freedom & After – Anil Nauriya
• GG Parikh – A Modern days Dadhichi – Qurban Ali
• Profile of Mir Mushtaq Ahmed – Qurban Ali  
• Raghuvansh Babu: A committed socialist in times of neo-liberalism

Other Prominent Contributors

• Mahatma Phule-Ampashayya Naveen
• Profile of B. R. Ambedkar– Qurban Ali
• Profile of M. N. Roy – Qurban Ali
• Sardar Bhagat Singh -The Lost Letters – Shiv Verma
• Return to the Revolutionary Road– Gopalkrishna Gandhi (The Hindu)
• Recalling Bhagat Singh – Anirudh Deshpande

Eminent Parliamentarians Monograph Series from the Parliament of India – Qurban Ali

For some of the books in Hindi, please visit Hindi section. 

• MaulanaAbulKalamAzad 
•  Dr. B.R. Ambedkar – English
• Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia – English
• Jayaprakash Narayan – English
• Madhu Dandavate – English
• Madhu Limaye – Commemorative Volume
• Chandra Shekhar – Engligh
• SM_Joshi-English
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