1. Quoted in Carl Bridge, Holding India to the Empire: The British Conservative Party and the 1935 Constitution (London: Oriental University Press, 1986), 2.
2. On the critical significance of this period, see Stuart Ball, Baldwin and the Conservative Party: The Crisis of 1929–1931 (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1988), 128–129
3. D. George Boyce, Decolonisation and the British Empire (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1999), 89–90.
4. Judith Brown, Modern India: The Origins of an Asian Democracy, 2nd ed. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994), 207.
5. Nicholas Owen, The British Left and India Metropolitan Anti-Imperialism, 1885–1947 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007), 14.