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Origins of the Revolutionary Socialist Party (RSP) marxists.org /archive/bha ttacharya/19 82/origins-rsp/ind ex.htm Buddhadeva Bhattacharya  Footsteps shuffling a thousand years in this square will not rub off the trace of your blood from these stones though the babble of countless voices cross this quietness that bell will echo, tolling the hour of your death though rain may rot these walls to their foundations it will not quench the blaze of your martyred names nor the dead band of a thousand nights of oppression stifle your living hope for that destined day that we throughout the world, so many of us, are yearning toward the final day of suffering, the clay of justice won through bitter struggle and you, O fallen brothers, out of the silence your voices will rise in the mighty shout of freedom when the hope of the people flames into paeans of joy.  Pablo Neruda Source: pamphlet Published: 1982 Transcription/HTML: Mike B. Proofread: Sukla Sen Public Domain: Marxists Internet Archive (2006). You may freely copy, distribute, display and perform this work; as well as make derivative and commercial works. Please credit “Marxists Internet Archive as your source. [MIA Transcribers' Notes ] The 'Origins of the RSP' by Buddhadeva Bhatt acharya, a scholar of some repute and a political activist himself, is essentially a historical document. Even though it is rather slim but valuable nevertheless. For one, despite abundance, in fact overabunda nce of foot-notes and citations of source documents — typical of the author's style, this monograph is also largely based on live interactions with many important 'subjects' of the History that this slim volume deals with. That's no mean advantage. The foreword — an even briefer historical account of the period concerned, is contributed by his political and ideological mentor , who despite the rather small size of the following of the political trend that he came to champion and lead occupies an important position in the annals of modern Indian history . His portrait adorns the Central Hall of the Indian Parliament together with selected others. The main importance of this volume, however , lies in the subject matter itself. It deals with a certain minority , but nevertheless pretty hallowed in popular perception, militant trend within the huge tradition of colonised India's struggle for national independe nce — quite often rather misleadingly almost exclusively equated with its best known leader M. K. Gandhi, better known as Mahatma (the Great Soul) Gandhi. It traces the trajectory of the evolution of the leading section of militant nationalism into a Marxist current.

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