This book presents the chapters; Constraint and tension in middle-class leadership; The Hindu-Muslim question; Ambivalence to the working-class struggle; Bengal Provincial Congress - operational dilemma and organisational constraint; Conclusion; Appendix I -Biographical sketches of leading political activists; Appendix II - The composition of the BPCC, 1939179; Appendix III-14-point election manifesto of the KPP, declared in the 1936 Dacca session.