Ibid., pp. 15–26. Kono, Sakai, and Nonogaki were interviewed again by the
Khosla Commission in the early 1970s and by Leonard A. Gordon in 1979 in the
presence of Netaji’s daughter Anita. See Gordon, Brothers against the Raj, pp. 539–
543, 740–741.
Khan and Maitra, Netaji Inquiry Committee Report, pp. 29–30. Full text of
Juichi Nakamura’s testimony (NRB).
Khan and Maitra, Netaji Inquiry Committee Report, pp. 40–42; and Naka-
mura’s testimony (NRB).
Khan and Maitra, Netaji Inquiry Committee Report, pp. 67–68; Suresh Chan-
dra Bose, Dissentient Report (Calcutta: Subarna Prakasani, 1956). For a criticism of
the dissenting report, see Gordon, Brothers against the Raj, p. 606.
Khan and Maitra, Netaji Inquiry Committee Report, pp. 24, 35, 50.
Ibid., p. 61, quoting 1 Corinthians 15:55.
G. D. Khosla, Report of the One- Man Commission of Inquiry into the Disap-
pearance of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose (New Delhi: Government of India, 1977),
pp. 123–125.
Manoj Mukherjee, interview with Star Ananda News (February 2010);
Mukherjee commission to Sugata Bose, October 4, 2002 (in my possession).
Manoj Mukherjee, Report of the Commission; Parliamentary Proceedings,
The portion of Netaji’s mortal remains kept in the Murti home was brought
back to India in March 2006, in consultation with Netaji’s daughter Anita, and the
prime minister of India was informed of this development. The urn preserved in
Tokyo’s Renko- ji temple has not yet (as of 2010) been brought back to India.
My conversations with Netaji’s associates and numerous speeches and me-
dia interviews given by them. For Sisir Kumar Bose’s criticism of the proponents
of the “so- called mystery” surrounding Netaji’s disappearance and the votaries of a
“strange and spurious new Bose cult,” see S. K. Bose, “Editor’s Note,” in Sisir Ku-
mar Bose, ed., Netaji and India’s Freedom (Calcutta: Netaji Research Bureau, 1975),
p. vii.
Khan and Maitra, Netaji Inquiry Committee Report, pp. 35, 63.
“My Political Testament,” Subhas Chandra Bose to the Governor of Bengal,
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, 2004), p. 197.
Tendulkar, Mahatma, pp. 313–314.
Dilip Kumar Roy, Netaji, the Man: Reminiscences (Bombay: Bharatiya Vidya
Bhavan, 1966), p. 147.
Tendulkar, Mahatma, p. 92.
K. T. John to S. R. Nathan, August 30, 2000. I am most grateful to President
S. R. Nathan of Singapore for sending me a copy of this letter. S. R. Nathan to
Sugata Bose, February 21, 2007 (in my possession).
A. C. N. Nambiar, who headed the Free India Center in Berlin after Bose’s
