His Majesty\'s Opponent. Subhas Chandra Bose and India\'s Struggle Against Empire

288 HIS MAJESTY’S OPPONENT Dhillon, a flamboyant Sikh of fi cer who commanded many Tamil re- cruits of the Nehru brigade. Bose’s ...

Roads to Delhi 289 On February 13, Prem Sahgal had taken leave of Netaji in Rangoon and moved north. He had seen tears flowing d ...

290 HIS MAJESTY’S OPPONENT gines—shells that made “a terrible mess of the human body.” After sheltering in the jungle outside Yi ...

Roads to Delhi 291 nity in Malaya. The Indians reached an un der stand ing with the Bur- mese not to fight against each other. T ...

292 HIS MAJESTY’S OPPONENT Adventure into the Unknown On the eve of his departure from Burma, Netaji addressed his soldiers: I h ...

Roads to Delhi 293 Kiani, J. K. Bhonsle, and A. C. Chatterjee to major- general rank, and Shah Nawaz, Sahgal, and Dhillon had be ...

294 HIS MAJESTY’S OPPONENT the story, “for the trek from Sittang to Moulmein en route to Bangkok. Major General Zaman Kiani was ...

Roads to Delhi 295 played a crucial role in the military reconquest of Burma, but he clearly noticed something new that promised ...

296 HIS MAJESTY’S OPPONENT by now,” he noted, “that the war aims of the Soviet Union are quite dif- ferent from those of the Ang ...

Roads to Delhi 297 I and my comrades here are engaged in a grim struggle. Our comrades at the front have to play with death. Eve ...

298 HIS MAJESTY’S OPPONENT wry smile. “What next?” He decided to drive down to Singapore the next day, and gave urgent instructi ...

Roads to Delhi 299 tried in India, he could not be executed, as “the pressure for his release would be too great.” Perhaps he co ...

300 HIS MAJESTY’S OPPONENT immortal comrades and yourselves will certainly achieve their ful- fillment.”^143 And to the Indian c ...

Roads to Delhi 301 with dignity. “We had done nothing of which we or our countrymen could ever feel ashamed,” Kiani said, “and a ...

302 HIS MAJESTY’S OPPONENT Bose’s express permission. Prince Wan Waithayakon had hosted a tea in honor of Bose in June. He, alon ...

Roads to Delhi 303 but Habib held the higher military rank and had served as his deputy chief of staff in Singapore. The hope wa ...

9 A Life Immortal Let us all try to be brave at the loss of one of the bravest of men. His will be done. —sisir kumar bose to Bi ...

A Life Immortal 305 to his mother. “Please do not be anxious on my account. I shall be all right.”^2 Sarat Chandra Bose was then ...

306 HIS MAJESTY’S OPPONENT roar of the bomber’s engine became louder, “Chandra Bose Kakkaa [Excellency].” Once the plane reached ...

A Life Immortal 307 Rama Murti’s house, where his wife placed it on a high table with in- cense burning on both sides and a stac ...