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A page from
a letter to Mrs Kitty Kurti (1934)
Historical Context: This letter was a reply to Mrs Kitty
Kurti, in Berlin. Mrs. Kurti and her husband had befriended Subhas
Bose who was visiting Berlin at that time as an exile. The British
Indian Government had exiled him to Europe because he had been diagnosed
in prison of having symptoms of tuberculosis. The British Indian
Government refused to release him from prison in India, unless he
agreed to leave India for treatment in Europe on condition that
he would not enter any British territory including England. The
Kurtis were of Jewish origin and were very worried about the future
of Germany after the Nazis took control of the country. In this
letter written from Geneva on 23rd February 1934 Subhas was explaining
the meaning of the term 'Samyavadi Sangh'. At this stage Subhas
was thinking of sponsoring a group in the Indian National Congress
to popularize socialistic reorganization of India after she has
regained independence. This letter has importance because it explains
Subhas's views on socialism. It was clear that he was looking for
a synthesis of a modern variant of socialism in the Indian context.
He was clearly not accepting the Bolshevik interpretation of socialism
powerfully propagated by the Soviet government of those days.
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