Chapter 14

1. Cited in M. N. Roy, Philosopher—Revolutionary: A Symposium, compiled and edited by Sibnarayan Ray (Calcutta: Renaissance Publisher Pvt. Ltd, 1959), p. 7.

2. Sudipta Kaviraj, “The Heteronymous Radicalism of M. N. Roy’, in Thomas Pantham and Kenneth L. Deutsch (eds), Political Thought in Modern India (New Delhi: Sage Publication, 1986), p. 215.

3. Helene Carrere d’ Encausse and Stuart R Schram, Marxism and Asia (London: The Penguin Press, 1969); John Patrick Haithcox, Communism and Nationalism In Indian: M.N. Roy and Comintern Policy, 1920– 39 (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1971); Franz Borkenau, World Communism, A History of the Communist International (Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 1962); James W Hulse, The Forming of the Communist International, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1964); Gene D. Overstreet, Marshall Windmiller, Communism in India (Berkeley, LA: University of California Press, 1959); G. Adhikary (ed.), Documents of the History of Communist party of India (DHCPI), Vol. 1, (Delhi: Peoples Publishing House, 1971).

4. V I. Lenin, ‘The Socialist Revolution and the Right of Nations to Self Determination’, Collected Works, Vol. 22, pp. 149–152.

5. V I. Lenin, ‘The Second Congress of the Communist International, 19 July-7 Aug 1920’, Collected Works, Vol. 31, pp. 240–43.

6. Lenin, ‘Preliminary Draft Thesis on the National and Colonial Question’, Selected Works, Vol. 3, pp. 372–374. (Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1977)

7. Ibid, pp. 373–78.

8. Sudipta Kaviraj, ‘The Heteronymous Radicalism of M. N. Roy’, op. cit., pp. 216–17.

9. Samaren Roy, ‘M. N. Roy and Comintern’s Colonial Policy’, in Verinder Grover (ed.), Political Thinkers of Modern India, Vol.5, (New Delhi: Deep Publications), pp. 666–67.

10. Sudipta Kaviraj, op. cit., p. 217.

11. Ibid.

12. O. V Martyshin, ‘Some Problems of the Strategy and Tactics of the Indian National Liberation and Communist Movement’, in R. A. Ulyanovsky (ed.), The Comintern and the East: A Critique of Critique, (Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1978), pp. 178–79. See also G. Adhikary (ed.), DHCPI, Vol. I, op. cit.

13. Memoirs of M. N. Roy IV, in Verinder Grover (ed.), Political Thinkers of Modern India, op. cit, pp. 608–09. Also See. O. V Martyshin, op. cit., p. 179.

14. Memoirs of M. N. Roy -IV, op. cit., p. 609.

15. Ibid.

16. Cited in Samaren Roy, ‘M. N. Roy and Comintern’s Colonial Policy’, op. cit., pp. 670–671.

17. Sudipta Kaviraj, ‘The Heteronymous Radicalism of M. N. Roy’, op. cit., p. 218.

18. M. N. Roy, India in Transition (Bombay: Nachiketa Publications Limited, 1971), pp. 15–16.

19. Ibid., p. 17.

20. Ibid., p. 18

21. Ibid., p. 20–21.

22. Ibid., p. 22–43

23. Sudipta Kaviraj, op. cit., pp. 233–34.

24. Ibid., p. 234.

25. India in Transition, op. cit., pp. 203–04.

26. Gene D. Overstreet, Marshall Windmiller, op. cit, pp. 103–04.

27. M. N. Roy, The Future of Indian Politics (London: R. Bishop, 1926), pp. 78–91.

28. Gene D. Overstreet, Marshall Windmiller, op. cit., p. 118.

29. Cited in O. V Martyshin, op. cit., p. 205.

30. John Patrick Haithcox, op. cit., p. 174.

31. Ibid., p. 171.

32. O. V Martyshin, op. cit., pp. 206–07.

33. John Patrick Haithcox, op. cit., p. 247.

34. Ibid., p. 170–71.

35. O. V Martyshin, op. cit., pp. 208–09.

36. Roy developed his ideas in the course of a series of lectures delivered in late 1940s. His ideas are contained in the following books:
M. N. Roy, New Orientation (Calcutta: Renaissance Publishers Ltd, 1946). -
Politics, Power and Parties (Delhi: Ajanta Prakashan, 1981) -
Reason, Romanticism and Revolution (Calcutta: Renaissance Publishers Pvt. Ltd, 1955).

37. Sudipta Kaviraj, p. 231.

38. M. N. Roy, Politics Power and Parties, op. cit., p. 160.

39. Ibid., p. 212.

40. Ibid., p. 214.

41. M. N. Roy, Reason, Romanticism and Revolution, p. 310.

42. M. N. Roy, ‘Some Landmarks in the Development of a Philosophy of Freedom’ in Verinder Grover, op. cit., pp. 194–95.

43. Ibid., p. 195.

44. Ibid., p. 193–94.