| AICC : | All India Congress Committee |
| AICC Papers : | All India Congress Committee Papers (Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, New Delhi) |
| AIKS : | All India Kisan Sabha |
| AIML : | All India Muslim League |
| AISF : | All India Students Federation |
| AISPC : | All India States People's Conference |
| AITUC : | All India Trade Union Congress |
| CC : | Central Committee |
| CI : | Communist International |
| (The) Congress Encyclopaedia : |
The Encyclopaedia of the Indian National Congress |
| CPGB : | Communist Party of Great Britain |
| CPI : | Communist Party of India |
| CPSU(B) : | Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Bolshevik) |
| CSP : | Congress Socialist Party |
| CWC : | Congress Working Committee |
| CWG : | Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi |
| ECCI : | Executive Committee of the Communist International |
| EE : | Eastern Economist |
| FB : | Forward Bloc |
| FICCI : | Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry |
| GOI : | Government of India |
| IAR : | Indian Annual Register |
| IESHR : | Indian Economic and Social History Review |
| ILO : | International Labour Organisation |
| IMPRECOR : | International Press Correspondence |
| JN Papers : | Jawaharlal Nehru Papers (NMML) |
| PB : | Polit Bureau |
| PCC : | Provincial Congress Committee |
| PT Papers : | Purshotamdas Thakurdas Papers (NMML) |
| RTC : | Round Table Conference |
| RTUC : | Red Trade Union Congress |
| SWM : | Selected Works of Mao Tsetung |
| SWN : | Selected Works of Jawaharlal Nehru |
| TOP : | Constitutional Relations between Britain and India: The Transfer of Power 1942-47 |
| Wickenden Report : |
Quit India Movement: British Secret Report |
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