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“The Sinn Féin of India”: Irish Nationalism and the Policing of Revolutionary Terrorism in Bengal

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 January 2014

Michael Silvestri
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A recent article in the Calcutta magazine Desh outlined the exploits of a revolutionary fighting for “national freedom” against the British Empire. The article related how, during wartime, this revolutionary traveled secretly to secure the aid of Britain's enemies in starting a rebellion in his country. His mission failed, but this “selfless patriot” gained immortality as a nationalist hero. For an Indian—and particularly a Bengali—audience, the logical protagonist of this story would be the Bengali nationalist leader Subhas Chandra Bose. Bose, the former president of the Indian National Congress, assumed the leadership of the Indian National Army with the support of the Japanese imperial government during the Second World War in the hopes of freeing India from British rule. The subject of the story, however, was not Bose, but the United Irishmen leader Theobald Wolfe Tone and his efforts in 1796 to secure assistance for an Irish rebellion from the government of Revolutionary France. The article went on to narrate how Ireland had been held in the “grip of imperialism” for an even longer period of time than India and concluded that the Irish and Indian nationalist movements were linked by a history of rebellion against British rule.

As the Desh article illustrates, the popular image of the relationship between Ireland and India within the British Empire has been that of two subject peoples striving for national freedom. This linkage of Irish and Indian history has had particular resonance in Bengal.

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Journal of British Studies , Volume 39 , Issue 4 , October 2000 , pp. 454 - 486
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88 The district magistrate of Chittagong, who was unaware of the proscription order, wrote to the Government of Bengal in October 1930 requesting that My Fight for Irish Freedom be banned for reasons of its “injurious influence” on “impressionable minds” as well the application of its ideas by revolutionaries in the Chittagong Armoury Raid. H. R. Wilkinson, District Magistrate, Chittagong, to H. Tufnell-Barrett, Second Additional Sec. to GOB, 10 October 1930, WBSA, GOB Home (Pol.) Conf. no. 749 of 1930.

89 These included biographies of John Mitchel as well as books containing shorter sketches about the Fénian Luke Dillon and the Sinn Féin leader Countess Markievicz. A Hindi-language biography of de Valera published in Calcutta was also proscribed by the Government of India. See Shaw and Lloyd, Publications Proscribed by the Government of India. For details of Narayan Chakrabarti's Vidrohi Ireland (Revolutionary Ireland), proscribed by the Government of Bengal in 1929, see NAI, GOI Home (Pol.) 27/1 of 1929.

90 Emphasis added. Johnston, Calcutta Special Branch, to Director, Intelligence Bureau, GOI, 10 September 1935, NAI, GOI Home (Pol.) no. 41/6 of 1935.

91 Note by H. Williamson, 17 September 1935, NAI, GOI Home (Pol.) no. 41/6 of 1935.

92 Note by H. D. Craik, 25 October 1935; and Anderson to Craik, 28 October 1935, NAI, GOI Home (Pol.) no. 41/6 of 1935. The Government of India also considered but ultimately rejected the proscription of Macardle's, DorothyThe Irish Republic (1937)Google Scholar after copies were seized in Calcutta. For details, see NAI, GOI Home (Pol.) no. 41/7 of 1937.

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98 Malcolm Seton wrote of the “desirability that this special recruitment should not be criticised in India as a drafting of ‘Black and Tans’ to inaugurate new methods of repression.” Sir Malcolm Seton to Sir W. Duke, 19 May 1922, OIOC, P&J no. 2092 of 1922, L/P&J/6/1800.

99 According to Thomas Mockaitis, the Anglo-Irish War was “part of a long series of internal-security operations that collectively gave rise to a traditional wisdom on how to combat irregulars.” Mockaitis, Thomas, British Counter-insurgency, 1919–1960 (London, 1990), p. 12Google Scholar.

100 These began with the Public Safety (Emergency Powers) Act of 1 August 1923 and extended to the Offenses against the State Act of 1939.

101 See NAI, GOI Home (Pol.) no. 4/66 of 1932. The 1927 Public Safety Act, passed after the assassination of Minister for Justice and External Affairs Kevin O'Higgins by an IRA gunman, provided for the establishment of “Special Courts” consisting of three or more members. The courts were established to try a range of offenses including murder, attempted murder, or conspiracy to murder the governor-general of Ireland or any member of the Irish legislature or judges. There was no appeal from the tribunals' decisions.

102 Suspects had to be brought before tribunals within one month and three days of arrest. The India Office noted that “the powers of detention are not so great” as those in India, although “the reasons justifying detention without trial in India do not however exist in Ireland in virtue of the power of the Tribunal to order its procedure.” Note by W. Johnston, 26 October 1931, OIOC, L/P&J/7/235.

103 British legislation to combat terrorism in India was based largely on the Defence of India Act of 1915, which allowed for detention without trial and the trial of terrorist suspects by tribunal rather than by jury.

104 Note by Malcolm Seton, 27 October 1931, OIOC, L/P&J/7/235.

105 At the same time the Government of Bengal also examined the Irish Free State Fire Arms Act of 1925 and the Treasonable Offenses Act of 1925. See WBSA, GOB Home (Pol.) Conf. no. 825 of 1931. The Government of the Punjab also requested to see copies of the 1931 act; NAI, GOI Home (Pol.) no. 295 of 1931.

106 Note by H. Twynham, 14 December 1931; and note by R. E. A. Ray, 29 October 1931, WBSA, GOB Home (Pol.) Conf. no. of 825 of 1931.

107 As Charles Townshend observes, that result was not achieved. Townshend, Charles, The British Campaign in Ireland, 1919–1921 (Oxford, 1975), p. 73Google Scholar.

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116 Note by R. N. Reid, 29 June 1932, WBSA, GOB Home (Pol.) Conf. no. 685 of 1932.

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119 A conference of officials from the Government of Bengal and the Government of India in November 1931 noted a “very real danger of the European population taking the law into their own hands, if outrages continue.” H. W. Emerson, “Note on Discussion with the Bengal Government,” 5 November 1931, OIOC, L/P&J/7/242.

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