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Communism and Nationalism in Colonial India, 1939-45 is an incisive and original contribution to our understanding of the Communist Party of India`s approach towards the Indian national movement and British colonialism from 1939-1945. Based ib extensive use of archival material, private papers and rare documents, the book is a critique of both the official CPI line as well as its detractor`s opinions about the party`s role in the said period. It analyses in detail both points of view with regard to why the CPI failed to expose what it termed as the betrayal of the bourgeois natinalist leadership and why it was not able to establish its hegemony over the Indian freedom struggle-to transform the bourgeois democratic revolution into a socialist revolution. This book can be used both as a textbook as well as a suplementary reading material by students, researchers and academicians working in the field of Political Science, Economics, Sociology and History. It is an invaluable resource for all those interested in the study of the interplay of communist, nationalist and imperialist forces during the Second World War, including political parties and civil society organizations.