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8/21/1960 - Initial Difficulties by Granville S. Austin

INSTITUTE OF CURRENT WORLD AFFAIRS GSA NOT FOR PUBLICATION Intlal Difflcultes Marina Hotel Mr Richard Nolte Room No Executive Director New Delhi Institute Current World Affairs August Madison Avenue New York New York Dear Dick Harold Ross A J Liebling neither editor reader cares Eet story But after New Delhi story mostly about difficulties weeks I thought I What I getting before I arrived prospect water gentler effect midriff Anyone expects research India framing Indian Constitution interviewing newspaperman style genteel document chasing straightforward though slightly dusty scholarly research libraries archives wrong I interviewed several persons careful reliable source makes footnote PhD thesis I started chasing documents after I arrived I spend months doing I sorry I where those papers No those confidential We those papers Oh brother I libraries National Archives These interesting published materials available England nothing crucial The first person I thesis Ralph Retzlaff I In touch Oxford He wrote PhD thesis Cornell Indian Constituent Assembly problem Iudlan unity couple years collecting material Constitution mostly unity aspect democratic decentralization He Political Science Department Berkeley He devil getting material Finally fairly complete copies K M Nunshi President papers valuable With marvelous generosity offered anything First I myself He threw healthy scare saved mouths By taking several causes where I I material He interviews I think I better mostly because I material which interested which comes better facts interview thoughts Constitution relative Hindu Indian cultural political tradition I Dr Appadorai He pleasant ineffective I concerned I Mr Poplai Mr Talbot regards Appadorai through formalities becoming reader Sapru House library I checked their collection It books available Oxford drafts Constitution which I microfilmed publications useful exciting B S N Or Doc Murti press officer International Control Commission Vietnam Nancy I there I years I located There added incentive secretary Congress Party Parliament Doc knows doors front doors New Delhi touch among others showed Lok Sabha Secretariat bibliography Constitutional documents Through Secretary Indian Law Institute Markose At lunch I Dean Chacko Delhi University friend supervisor Oxford Friday August B Shiva Rao invited Not I corresponding Oxford thanks Mr Talbot Godfrey Jansen letter introduction He pleasant We talked B N Rau papers which fortunately promised answer questions introduce people By remembers Mr Rogers meeting States This The search Grail Hindu Mahasabha office where I Uncle Remus chewing betel He pleasant uninformative Since I found N C Chatterjee former Mahasabha president lives Delhi I touch The Government seized Mahasabha documents party banned after Gandhi assassination January could helpful anyway I another American other night seems doing gathering material learning about India His Stan Kochanek Fulbright student Pennsylvania Kochanek interests Congress party publications relations between All India Congress Party Committee Provincial Congress Committees activities Congress Party Parlia He Party permission special reports minutes sailing before Like everyone sails fearing Our interests overlap given offere material introductions AICC library publications divisions I Maybe system rabbits against wolves outnumber He short project cooperation Diwan Chand Info Center preparing biographies Parliament members He printed comprehensive answers calling having assistants personally Experience shawn Lok Sabha members often answer requests their secretariat Some material I Kochanek foresees clear power Backward Classes Parliament mostly because truly national social group other Brahm population The I dined Kochauek I Romesh Bhaudari private secretary Krishna Menon again thanks Godfrey Jansen A pleasant young I appointment Defence Minister today Apart general interest meeting I about negotiations concerning India Commonwealth High Commissioner London I I files Home Ministry Constituent Assembly elections material Ministry seized either Mahasabha Communists proscribed earlier Mahasabha He someone Law Ministry below Yesterday I talked S N Mukerjee presently Secretary Rajya Sabha onetime drafting officer Constitution He large pleasant Mr MukerJee talked little prompting He interesting about drafting pocess relations B N Rau Dr Ambedkar We aooTeed further meetings I think helpful There however person P N Hrishnamani under secretary RaJya Sabha superintendent Constituent Assembly He works under Merjee seems influence An acquisitive Krishnamani memory stops short where certain papers Retzlaff found barrier This morning I India reasonable lucid Dr H N Kunzru We talked before I could attend personal business I expect several times He talked morning other occasional mention people I should Federal structure Constitution powers Center States This interests Constituent Assembly Meetings other notables pending I telephone Minoo Masani tomorrow arrange meeting I having lunch Penderel Moon Wednesday I letters President through Retzlaff channels K M Munshi I corresponded Oxford T T Krishnamachari Madras General Secretary AICC Sadiq All about party facilities Professor Morris Jones Delhi return early month We arranged meeting about September He author remember Parliament India member Mountbatten staff during transfer power I Oxford These people beginning In further efforts organized I touch USIS typist letter accreditation National Archives language teacher Embassy where I friend Political Section several correspondents especially Welles Hangen NBC I variety Indians social busluess level I called Mr Gerold Pan American brief pleasant The language instructor I courtesy Cultural Affairs Officer USIS ample Kashmiri lardy named Mrs Dar comes hotel mornings lesson Hindustani I beginning phrase method It When I system though I almost wrote letter Nehru protest From hundred there nearly distinct words What roots suffixes there appear logically consistently This example mysterious East I against I write about problem collecting documents I could I flood The published materil takes fining I leave I Publications period books harder I lucky though Anything I political party propaganda newspapers magazinesj Constituent Assembly publications needed either Indian Institute Institute Commonwealth Studies Oxford So I there The difficult going buying Hindustan Times beginning reasonable price This channels The unpublished documents Constituent Assembly tough Nuch destroyed Some hands individuals President K M Munshi others hidden forgotten various ministries The Law Ministry repository never knowledge cooperated anybody their How material frightening problem How ensure seeing other papers possession individuals assumes equal proportions Why available Secretiveness surely wanton display power little bureaucrats sometimes feeling foreigners working India material Indians doesn always Lok Sabha Secretariat itself material Law Ministry There converse attitude Sad white Indians story though fromMoroccotoHongKong Aboveallourefforts onhuge blackwings bureaucracy circles menacingly ready swoop snatch tender microfilm undigested Archives shelves The hunting pleasures however finding tidbi bookshop owner swore buying stuff other people money Oxford libraries finding Communist bookshop selling bourgeois novels capitalist criticism Soviets finding nonchalant books volumes Wilfred Burchett Frank Buchman cuddled gether All going merry The D Phil stick powerful incentive there desire system learn about India But donkey never carrot bureaucracy remained squat immobile unscarred before onslaught If anyone really wanted advice I think Yours sincerely Granville Austin