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132. Attlee to Pethick-Lawrence, 7 May 1946, in Tinker, Burma, vol. I, p. 773.
133. Pearce to Dorman-Smith, 18 August 1946, Dorman-Smith Papers, Mss Eur E215/15, OIOC.
134. Tom Driberg, Ruling passions (London, 1978), pp. 215–16.
135. Aung San to Driberg, 12 June 1946, Driberg Papers, S3, Christ Church, Oxford.
136. Naw, Aung San, p. 166, citing Maurice Collis, Last and first in Burma, 1941–48 (London, 1956), p. 280.
137. Dorman-Smith to John Humphrey Wise, 8 November 1946, Dorman-Smith Papers, Mss Eur E215/16, OIOC.
138. Ibid.
139. U Thein Pe Myint, ‘A critique of the communist movement in Burma’, 1973, Mss Eur C498, f. 12, OIOC.
140. Burma and the insurrections, Government of the Union of Burma Publications, September 1949 (Rangoon, 1949), p. 3; Thein Pe, ‘A critique’, f. 19.
141. M. E. Dening, ‘Review of political events in South-East Asia 1945 to March 1946’, 25 March 1946, in Stockwell, British documents: Malaya, part I, p. 218.
142. Clyde Sanger, Malcolm MacDonald: bringing an end to empire (Montreal and London, 1995).
143. John Falconer to Hugh Bryson, 3 October 1969, Heussler Papers, RHO.
144. Ibid., p. 80. The description of the palace is by Han Suyin, a frequent guest of MacDonald’s.
CHAPTER 6 1946: ONE EMPIRE UNRAVELS, ANOTHER IS BORN
1. Nicholas Mansergh (ed.), Constitutional relations between Britain and India: the transfer of power 1942–47, vol. VII, The Cabinet Mission (London, 1977), introduction.
2. Maulana Azad to Wavell, 13 June 1946, ibid., p. 914.
3. Wavell, note of 29 June 1946, ibid., p. 1085.
4. Penderell Moon (ed.), Wavell: the viceroy’s journal (London, 1973), entry for 24 October 1946, p. 363
5. Patrick French, Liberty or death: India’s journey to independence and division (London, 1997), pp. 247–9.
6. Moon, Wavell, entry for 27 August 1946, p. 341.
7. Joya Chatterji, Bengal divided: Hindu communalism and partition, 1932–1947 (Cambridge, 1994), pp. 230–40; Suranjan Das, Communal riots in Bengal, 1905–1947 (Delhi, 1991), p. 165.
8. Extract in ‘Calcutta riots 1946–7’, L/P and J/8/655, OIOC.
9. Cited in Das, Communal riots, p. 168.
10. Press release of Working Committee of the Bengal Provincial Muslim League, 6 September 1946, ‘Calcutta riots 1946–7’, L/P and J/8/655, OIOC.
11. Sim to Col. F. J. Erroll MP, n.d. August 1946, extract in ‘Calcutta riots 1946–7’, ibid.
12. Ibid.
13. Governor Bengal to viceroy, 22 August 1946, entry Monday 19 August, ibid.
14. Das, Communal riots, p. 171.
15. This paragraph follows Das, Communal riots, the most authoritative secondary account of these events. This narrative itself is largely based on the 10-volume, Calcutta disturbances commission of enquiry: minutes of evidence (Calcutta, 1946).
16. Statesman, 26 August 1946.
17. Das, Communal riots, pp. 183–4.
18. Statesman, 24 August 1946; the newspaper’s coverage of these events was collected in the ‘Great Calcutta Killing, August 1946–September 1946’, copy in Stephens Papers, Centre of South Asian Studies, Cambridge.
19. Dash, Bengal diary, vol. IX, p. 80, Centre of South Asian Studies, Cambridge.
20. Moon, Wavell, entry for 3 November 1946, p. 370.
21. Diary entry for 17 August, ‘Report on the disturbances in Calcutta commencing August 16 1946 issued by HQ Eastern Command’, Bucher Papers, 7901–87 A, National Army Museum.
22. Diary entry for 18 August, ibid.
23. Dash diaries, August 1946, ff. 74–80, Mss Eur C188/6, OIOC.
24. Governor Bengal to viceroy, 28 August 1946, ‘Calcutta riots 1946–7’, L/P and J/8/655, OIOC.
25. ‘Record of life in the Indian Civil Service 1930–47’, F. O. Bell Papers, Centre of South Asian Studies, Cambridge.
26. A retrospective account; Edward McInery to J. H. Habbakuk, 14 February 1976, McInery diary, Mss Photo Eur 148, OIOC.
27. Personal communications to the authors, 2001, from Professor F. M. L. Thompson.
28. Secret report on the political situation in Bengal for the second half of September 1946 by chief secretary to government of Bengal, J. M. G. Bell Papers, 2, Centre of South Asian Studies, Cambridge.
29. ‘Note on recent experiences’, late