Went through this biography of P. C. Joshi, Gen Sec of CPI pre 47. Most interesting part was how he was humiliated in the party he built through betrayal of India’s freedom movement ia801209.us.archive.org/23/items/P.C.J…
The other mildly interesting part was the allusion to the slandering culture in politics by Joshi’s biographer & claim that Joshi was above it. Certainly not. Joshi was the slanderer in chief. Recall the cartoons on Subhas Babu, all done when he was editing People’s War Magazine
The book also talks briefly about how peer pressure is used in politics. After P. C. Joshi was suspended from CPI, his wife Kalpana Joshi (nee Dutta) was pressurized to publicly castigate him. She didn’t.But then most of his close comrades deserted probably under similar pressure
P. C. Joshi was a Brahmin from Almora of Uttarakhand, was related to another Brahmin from Almora region, Govind Ballabh Pant. Both were close 2 Nehru. That’s not where the similarity between Joshi & Pant end however.
