द इण्डियन स्ट्रगल / भारतीय स्वाधीनता संग्राम (नेताजी सुभाष चन्द्र बोस - ऐतिहासिक विश्लेषण)

38 THE INDIAN STRUGGLE
gentleman and an advocate by profession, Dr. S. Kitchlew,
a Moslem nationalist leader of Lahore, also an advocate and
the present writer. But since 1930, Mr. Srinivasa Iyengar
has retired from the Congress and with the exception of Dr.
Kitchlew and the writer,¹ the others have been won over by
the Mahatma. Nevertheless, even without many prominent
leaders the Left Wing is fairly strong. The position of Pandit
Jawaharlal Nehru in this connection is an interesting one.
His ideas and views are of a radical nature and he calls himself
a full-blooded socialist—but in practice he is a loyal follower
of the Mahatma. It would probably be correct to say that
while his brain is with the Left Wingers, his heart is with
Mahatma Gandhi.
Among the other leaders, Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan
(popularly called the Frontier Gandhi), a Moslem leader of
the Frontier Province, is at present exceedingly popular, but
it is too early to describe his exact political complexion. Mr.
P. D. Tandon, and other Congress leaders of the United
Provinces, are followers of Pandit J. L. Nehru, though they
are inclined towards the Left Wing. The Central Provinces
leaders, Seth Govindh Das and Pandit Dwarka Prasad Misra,
are also inclined towards the Left Wing. Among those who
played a prominent part in the National Movement prior to
1920, Lokamanya Tilak of Poona, Mr. B. C. Pal of Calcutta,
Sir S. N. Banerjea of Calcutta, Mr. G. K. Gokhale of Poona
and Sir Pherozhah Mehta of Bombay, are dead. The first
two belonged to the Left Wing, while the rest belonged to
the Right Wing. Of those who played an important part
since 1920, the following leaders are now dead: Lala Lajpat
Rai of Lahore, Deshbandhu C. R. Das of Calcutta, Pandit
Motilal Nehru of Allahabad, Mr. J. M. Sengupta of Calcutta
and Mr. Vithalbhai Patel of Bombay. Among the prominent
leaders who retired from the Congress, but who are still alive,
are Sri Aurobindo Ghosh of Calcutta who has been living a
religious life in French Pondicherry since 1909, and Mr.
Srinivasa Iyengar of Madras who retired from active politics
in 1930.
¹ Swami Govindanand of Karachi has also consistently taken up
a Left-wing position.