A CORRESPONDENCE ON INDIAN FREEDEM MOVEMENT

by Manjeet Singh

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Editor's Note: This volume is brought out bastily in continuation of the one brought out last year on Indian Freedom Movement for the period 1930-1934. This covers the period 1942-1952. In the gap between 1934 to 1942, 1t can not be said with certainty if the late Sardar Khazan Singh had any important correspondence on the subject. The ambiguity is on account of those tro reasons: 1) the late Sardar had, then, been a fully occupied by his multifarious campaigns against corruption in courts and in gurdwara administration as well as by the comptlation of his several works, yet unpublished; and 2) as ill luck would have it, the partition of the Punjab forced him to forego all his property, including his luso library of rare works and voluminous records of many manuscripts and papers - the fruit of his persistent, continuous, tireless labour of love, which the great Sardar's indomitable spirit produced in his long vista of life, spanning over not less than half a century period at least. Alas! It was, indeed, a great and unbearable loss for him, a similar to Newton's, when the latter's life long labours were reduced to ashes by his loving dog 'Diamond' incidently. HOTrevor, in spite of this, we still have something to assess thg immensity of his labour of love for his dear country, community, and the commonweal. I have and savoured to make this collection as up to date as possible, until 1952. Yet, as the reader will observe from various references in the work, there are still many missing links in the chain of this little collection. NeverttoloSS, since 1961 I hava bean carrying on with my humble offorts with very mea gre resources of time etc. at no y disposal, to look for them, and collect and collate all these records at the cost of considerable time, money, ·labour and energy, telling plentily upon my already suffering health and career as woll. It was in 1961-62, my inner soul having quarried tham laboriously, had ardently desired to place all these records b-fore the public, but could not due to certain reasons ich need not be explained here. That strong desire lingered on however, keeping no restless all these years. And now by publishing them, though partly fulfilling 111 Dy th it long cherished desire and duty, I feel too glad to explain it. (And what pleasure it might have japartad to the author himself if h6 wore alive today is beyond expression). And I hope that Great God will help me publish all that remains as well before long. In the previous volume, I missed to incorporate a letter of Sardar Khazan Singh addressed to lato Shri Toj Bahadur Sapru and that of late Sir Jogindera Singh to the Sardar as an Introduction to this volume; and which will also be included in the next edition of the already published volume I. The readers interested on the subject, may refer to another voluma, shortly being published, called: "Corros pondence with Lord Hatley, formur Governor of Punjab & United Provinces". The kind readers may, also, patiently wait for the publication of the late Sardar''s hugo but wonderful correspondance on corruption etc., which may, remotely, bo called a part of the national freedom struggle of the people - Something to which he dedicated his entire life. H-452, Naraina, DDA, NEW DELHI-110028 (INDIA) MANJEET SINGH 7th Juna 1975