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266 I Ramnath
n:ason why such an article should appear in "J. magazine mainly
devoted to sex questions which the lady editor permitted to be
discllssed with an amount of freedom usually confined to medical
journals." Leeh Gandhi doesn't find this surprising, however.
On affinities between anticolonial movements and counterhegemonic
groups within the empire whose oppositionality stemmed
from other sources, see Leela Gandhi, Ajj{xtil'e Communities:
Antimloni,z/ Thought, Fin-De-Siede Radi(,dism, and the Politics 0/
Friendship (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2006).
36. John Taylor Caldwell, Come Dungeons DtIrk: The Lije tImL
7imes (l(;IY Aldred, Gltlsgow Ananhist (Glasgow : Luath Press,
1988), 95. See also, in general, the work of Ruth Kinna, such as
"Bridging Difference, through Revolutionary Action : Aldred on
Anarchism and Marx" (paper presented at Cooper Union, New
Yo rk, March 15, 2008); cf. DCI 11.9.1 909, B. October 1909,
110-17, in Bose, Selected Documents. Indian radicals warmly
recalled him later as the only Englishman to have stood up fo r
them at the time, although Caldwell (Come Dungeons Dark, 213)
notes that the only hint of socialist sympathies his Indian colleagues
evinced occurred incidentally, "on the common ground of
opposition to imperialism:'
37. Caldwell, Come Dungeons Dark, 96. Aldred was later to
return to prison as a conscientious objector to World War 1.
38. Confidential, A. August 1909, 44-52, "Notice on
Pondicherry and Chandernagore as Centres of Seditious
Agitation:' in Bose, Selected Documents, 70; evidence is given
here that French Chandernagar was a conduit fo r arms and ammunition
being moved from Paris to Bengal: "It is my strong
impression that Chandernagorc constitutes the arms depot of the
Calcutta anarchist group."