A NUMBER of books on Indian communism have been recently published. An interesting feature of these studies is that many of these have been produced by communists themselves. This is important for a number of reasons. History is an ideological discipline, and studies of the socialist movement, which incidentally, in the fifties and sixties, were almost exclusively sponsored by Cold. War institutions, have served the purpose of the ruling classes by drawing a monstrous picture of Communism and by disseminating the ideology of capitalism and imperialism.
