[Swatantra Party Bombay Constituency]

Summary

This undated six-page Bombay office report records 82 contacts associated with the Swatantra Party. Its tabular entries combine names and addresses with brief remarks about membership, financial contributions, organisational work, requests for party literature, and plans to establish local branches or committees across Bombay, Gujarat, Maharashtra, Saurashtra, Kutch, Nagpur, Poona, and other locations. The report documents support from lawyers, journalists, academics, professionals, businesspeople, editors, former legislators, and civic figures, as well as correspondence from people who had previously worked for Congress.

The remarks present the party as an emerging opposition organisation seeking volunteers, youth participation, publications, convention attendance, and a wider regional network. They also register substantive concerns: taxation, food-grain prices, the cost of groundnut oil cake, local self-government, linguistic states, Hindi as a national language, the place of English as an official language, religious pluralism, and the party’s economic objectives. Several entries refer to C. Rajagopalachari (Rajaji), including his replies concerning paid workers and the organisation of the party; the report also mentions proposals involving Prof. N. G. Ranga and Dr. Aney. No title, date, formal author, or publisher line is printed on the pages.

Key points

• Lists 82 Bombay-area and wider regional contacts, with names, addresses, and organisational remarks.
• Records prospective members, existing members, donors, supporters, journalists, editors, professionals, and former political figures.
• Documents efforts to establish Swatantra Party branches, committees, youth activity, publications, and convention participation.
• Shows recurring requests for party literature, membership information, addresses, and clarification of party policy.
• Identifies concerns about taxation, food prices, local self-government, linguistic states, and official-language policy.
• Emphasises opposition politics, economic objectives, individual service, voluntary organisation, and resistance to Congress dominance.
• Includes endorsements of religious pluralism and references to English as an official language and Hindi as a possible national language.