द इण्डियन स्ट्रगल / भारतीय स्वाधीनता संग्राम (नेताजी सुभाष चन्द्र बोस - ऐतिहासिक विश्लेषण)

DEFEAT AND SURRENDER 307 former President of the Indian Assembly, and one of the outstanding leaders of the Congress, died of heart trouble in a Swiss clinic near Geneva. In accordance with his last wishes his mortal remains were brought to Bombay for crema- tion, where they were received by a procession of 200,000 people. He left all his assets (more than Rs. 100,000) for national work. Towards the end of 1933, the second Burma Round Table Conference was held in London. The first Conference had been held in November 1931, and the representatives from Burma were not therefore invited to the second and third session of the Indian Round Table Conference. As the composition of the first Burma Round Table Conference had been strongly criticised on the ground that the anti-separa- tionists had been poorly represented, the Government had agreed to a General Election in Burma on the issue of separa- tion from India. This election held in November 1932, gave a majority to the anti-separationists but taking advantage of the fact that the Burma Legislative Council did not vote for unconditional federation with India, the Government pro- ceeded with their pet scheme of separation from India. The second Burma Round Table Conference was therefore called in 1933 and the anti-separationists, though in a majority in Burma, were given less seats than the separationists. It is now certain that Burma will be separated from India¹ and will be given a bi-cameral legislature for dealing with both 'pro- vincial' and 'central' subjects. In December, important conferences were held as usual. The Liberal Federation met at Madras with Mr. J. N. Basu in the chair and condemned the White Paper. The All- India's Women Conference had a successful session in Cal- cutta and great enthusiasm was evinced by women represen- tatives from all parts of India in the matter of educational and social reform as well as in the matter of representation in International Committees in Geneva. The Trade Union Congress met at Cawnpore and among the resolutions passed ¹ The Report of the Joint Parliamentary Committee published on November 22nd, 1934, has provided 'for the separation of Burma from India.