power and privilege in the interest of maintaining stability and status-quo is the fundamental synthesis of compromise with imperialism and accession to power .” ( Ibid - page 42 ) “ Compromise with Feudal System :
The abolition of the zamindari system was another farce played on the people of India . With millions of acres of land left as the personal property of the zamindars ( and princes ), having allotted to them huge palaces and forts as their individual property , the Government of India paid hundreds of chores of rupees as compensation for the abolition of the zamindari system . No precise estimate of the amount of compensation paid to the zamindars is available . One reckoning puts it at Rs . 670 crores . No fundamental change was ever intended in the social and economic relations by the farce of the abolition of the zamindari system . Jawaharlal Nehru , as early as April 1948 , had declared in the Constituent Assembly his opposition to any fundamental change . He had stated in the Constituent Assembly that , ‘ one has to be careful of the steps one takes so as not to injure the existing structure too much — I am not brave and gallant enough to go about destroying any more ’. This fundamental declaration by the first Prime Minister of our country is a clear expression of the deal which the bourgeoisie and its representatives had arrived at , with Imperialism and Feudalism .” ( Ibid - page 43 ).
“ Nefarious Deal with Foreign Capital :
The Government , in the course of its decision in the Constituent Assembly , decided to remain within the ‘ Commonwealth ’, thereby giving a go-by to the famous resolution ‘ PURNA SWARAJ ’ passed at the Lahore Congress . The fears of foreign capital of its total extinction were laid at rest . On February 17 , 1948 , Prime Minister Nehru declared there will not be any sudden change in the economic structure . ‘ As far as possible there will
June - 2022 be no nationalization of the existing industries ’. Again in concrete terms , it is a promise made to foreign finance capital and its then representative , the British Government , that the Indian bourgeoisie is prepared to collaborate with them in the exploitation of the Indian people for super-profits .” ( Ibid , page - 43 ). “ Reorganising the Indian Army :
The Indian Government inherited the military system from the British . ‘ The Indian Army was part and parcel of the Imperial Forces . The British Indian Army had been kept aloof from politics and had been raised primarily to fulfill an imperial role ...... Officers were carefully screened for their loyalty ...... some of course were beneficiaries under British rule and a vested interest in maintaining it . Most of the officers had imbibed western ideas , culture , dress , and social habits ’. ( Brigadier J . P . Dalvi , ‘ Himalayan Blunder ’, page - 345 ). They were also concerned with the law and order situation in India - a vital matter for colonial rulers .
Thus the Indian Army was developed as a mercenary army in the interest of the imperialist power , completely cut off from the mainstream of the people , without national aims and purposefully kept aloof from the political environment . It was such an army as this that the Indian Government received as a legacy from the British . Along with its anti-national legacy , the Indian Army continued to be under the supreme command of the British Commander-in-Chief , General Boucher for two years after August 15 , 1947 . Our Defence Services Education continued to be in the hands of the imperialists , as was the case at the Defence Services Staff College at Wellington , where in October 1950 , ‘ the Commandant General W . D . A Lontaign , strode into the main lecture hall , interrupting the lecture , and proceeded to denounce our leaders for their short-sightedness and inaction in the face of Chinese Action ’, ‘ soon after the news of Chinese entry into Tibet ’. ( Brigadier J . P . Dalvi , ‘ Himalayan Blunder ’, page -28 ).
Thus it was that the transfer of power was an insulting compromise between the Indian bourgeoisie and the imperialists to safeguard India for their joint and agreed exploitations .
Just as ‘ Independent ’ India inherited the mercenary army , created and developed for its own imperial purposes by Britain , so also the new India inherited ‘ the efficient instrument of power , which the British had devised for ruling the country ’. The new state took over the whole structure of the administration from the Village Officials to the top-most Secretary in the Government of India almost intact .” ( INDIA MORTGAGED , page - 40 , 41 ).
Lastly on the whole , it can be summed up that , during the last episode of the liberation struggle of the people of India , the British Imperialists entered in to a compromise with the Indian big bourgeoisie and big landlord classes and handed over the state power to them through a secret treaty , with an understanding that interests of the British Imperialists will be fully preserved .
Therefore , it is clear that , the British Imperialists handed over the ruling power of India into the hands of their loyal and obedient bigbourgeoisie and big-landlord classes . Conclusion :
The various important points , those emerged out of this whole chapter are as follows : 1 . As an impact of the long lasting and heroic revolutionary independence struggle of the people of India , as well as because of the huge losses incurred by the British Imperialists in the second World war period , the unnerved British Imperialists had to come to a compromise and hand over the reigns of power into the hands of their most loyal and obedient Indian bourgeoisie classes , represented by the Indian National Congress in 1947 through a secret treaty of transfer of power . 2 . The Indian National Congress Party , being the representative of the big bourgeoisie and big landlord classes of our country , had embezzled �
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