Miscellaneous Letters and Documents on Post-War Indian Issues

Sub title : Including Food Price Concerns, INA Rehabilitation and Political Critique

Subject: Food Prices | Black Market | Inflation | Indian National Army | Rehabilitation | Cabinet Mission | Indian Independence

Date of publication: 1945

Language: English

Page: 14 p.

Source: National Archives of Pakistan

Serial no: 28341

Keyword: Okara Congress Committee -- Food Prices -- Black Market -- Indian National Army (INA) | Rehabilitation -- M.A. Jinnah -- Cabinet Mission | Poem -- British Withdrawal -- Ceylon -- Soulbury Commission -- Indian Diaspora -- Congress

Abstract: This collection comprises diverse documents from the mid-1940s addressing critical post-war challenges in India. It includes a letter from the Okara Congress Committee (1946) highlighting soaring food prices and black marketeering; official correspondence from the I.N.A. Enquiry & Relief Committee to M.A. Jinnah (1947) seeking reinstatement and absorption of INA personnel; a poem critiquing the Cabinet Mission and demanding British withdrawal; a statement on Indian rights in Ceylon concerning the Soulbury Commission; a political critique of the Congress and Gandhi (1945); a Congress election pamphlet urging votes for freedom and referencing the Quit India movement.

Description: This collection offers a multifaceted view of India's socio-political landscape in the years immediately preceding independence. The documents reflect widespread economic distress (letters on food prices), the unresolved status of INA personnel, political tensions between the Congress and Muslim League (poem and critique), international concerns regarding Indian communities abroad (Ceylon), and partisan mobilization (Congress pamphlet). SCANNED BY: NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF PAKISTAN.

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