Documents of the history of the communist party of India/ edited by G. Adhikari

[4:25 pm, 27/03/2022] Govind Sahu: The early period of the history of the Communist Party of India falls naturally into three parts. The first part up to the end of 1922 is the background and was covered in the first volume; the second part, up to the end of the year 1925, covered in this volume is the foundation and the third part up to the year 1929-the year of Meerut Conspiracy Case arrests-is the early period of mass activities. This last will be the subject of the third volume now in preparation.

The documents in this volume tell the story of how the individual communist groups that had emerged in Bombay, Madras, Bengal and in the north united together into the Communist Party of India at the First Communist Conference at Kanpur. en cada vhốl jověmsdal

The initiative to hold this first and foundation conference was taken by the official communist groups then functioning in different parts of the country and not by Satyabhakta, as held by some. S. A. Dange, though in jail at that time, played an important part in this. In his booklet, When Communist Differ (Bombay, 1970), he records as follows:

"Following the Kanpur Conspiracy Case in 1924 and our con viction... we instructed those who gathered round us in the case to hold a conference of communists and establish a properly constituted party and a central committee inside the country. A conference was therefore held in 1925 at the time of the Kanpur session of the Indian National Congress. Hence nowadays we date the foundation of the Indian party from that conference year."