Subhas Chandra Bose to Sarat Chandra Bose, October 24, 1940; idem, Oc-
tober 31, 1940; both in Bose, Alternative Leadership, pp. 158–161.
“On the Bengal Congress Tangle,” ibid., pp. 144–152.
“My Conscience Is My Own,” ibid., pp. 143–144.
One Man and a World at War
The legend was based on Jonathan Holwell’s exaggerated “eyewitness” ac-
count propagated by Macaulay and Curzon. See Nicholas Dirks, The Scandal of
Empire (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2006), pp. 1–5; Brijen K.
Gupta, Sirajuddaullah and the East India Company, 1756–1757: Background to the
Foundation of British Power in India (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1966), pp. 70–80.
Subhas Chandra Bose to H.E. The Governor of Bengal, The Hon. Chief
Minister and the Council of Ministers, November 26, 1940, in Subhas Chandra
Bose, The Alternative Leadership: Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, Collected Works,
vol. 10, ed. Sisir K. Bose and Sugata Bose (Calcutta: Netaji Research Bureau; Delhi:
Permanent Black, 1998, 2004), p. 197.
Subhas Chandra Bose to The Hon. Chief Minister and the Council of Min-
isters, December 2, 1940, ibid., p. 199.
Governor John Herbert to Viceroy Linlithgow, August 22, 1940, L/P&J/S/147
(IOR, BL).
Viceroy Linlithgow to Secretary of State for India, December 6, 1940, L/P&J
5562 (IOR, BL).
Governor John Herbert to Viceroy Linlithgow, December 11, 1940,
L/P&J/S/147 and R/3/2/16 (IOR, BL).
The man who took the photographs in Badgastein in December 1937 saw
them displayed in Bose’s bedroom when he visited in 1940. See A. K. Chettiar, “I
Meet Subhas- babu,” The Oracle, 28, no. 1 (January 2008).
Herbert to Linlithgow, December 11, 1940, L/P&J/S/147 and R/3/2/16
(IOR, BL).
Report by agent C207 in “Secret” file labeled “Activities of Subhas Chandra
Bose since his release from Jail on 5.12.40,” R/3/2/16- 17- 18 (IOR, BL), p. 2. There
were at least fourteen secret police agents keeping watch on Bose; they were num-
bered AS95, AS249, C107, C112, C115, C116, C195, C207, CB18, CB21, JP97,
JP312, TL31, and TP52, and their reports were compiled in this dossier.
Sisir Kumar Bose, The Great Escape (Calcutta: Netaji Research Bureau,
2000), p. 4.
Ibid., p. 7.
Report by agent C207 in “Secret” file labeled “Activities of Subhas Chandra
Bose,” p. 2.
Sisir Kumar Bose, Great Escape, pp. 14–18; Mian Akbar Shah, “Netaji’s Es-
cape: An Untold Chapter,” in Bose, Great Escape, Appendix 1, p. 75.
