ABSTRACT
In Bengal the Bengal Pradesh Congress Committee leader Sarat Chandra Bose had started negotiations with the Krishak Praja Party in February 1937. The KPP leader Abul Mansur Ahmad provides some details about these negotiations in his reminiscences Amar Dekha Rajnitir Panchash Bachhor. The leadership of the Krishak Praja movement came from the young university graduates turned out by Dacca University, which had come into being since 1921. The Communal Award formed the guiding principle of the Act of 1935 under which provincial autonomy was introduced with some special powers for the provincial Governors, who were to be the creatures of the central government headed by the Viceroy. The policy of the Congress Governments in the six Hindu majority provinces came under severe criticism from the Muslim League.
