<P> Even the Indian historian R.C. Majumdar noted this fact and states: </P> <P> "Shyam Prasad ended the letter with a discussion of the mass movement organised by the Congress . He expressed the apprehension that the movement would create internal disorder and will endanger internal security during the war by exciting popular feeling and he opined that any government in power has to suppress it, but that according to him could not be done only by persecution...In that letter he mentioned item wise the steps to be taken for dealing with the situation ..." </P> <P> The Communist Party of India was banned at that time by the British government . In order to get the ban lifted, as well as to assist the Soviet Union in its war against Nazi Germany, it supported the British war effort, despite support for Quit India by many industrial workers . In response the British lifted the ban on the party . </P> <P> The movement had less support in the princely states, as the princes were strongly opposed and funded the opposition . </P>

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