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departure for Asia in February 1943, became free India’s first ambassador to the
Federal Republic of Germany. In later years, Abid Hasan served as ambassador to
Denmark; Mehboob Ahmed, to Canada; Cyril John Stracey, to the Netherlands;
and N. Raghavan, to Switzerland. On the role of INA of fi cers in Pakistan’s army,
see Mohammad Zaman Kiani, India’s Freedom Struggle and the Great INA (New
Delhi: Reliance Publishing House, 1994), pp. xiv–xvi, 209–213. Kiani himself
served as po lit i cal agent in Gilgit in the late 1950s.
- Habibur Rahman Khan, “Short Note on Mr. Subhas Chandra Bose, Spe-
cially on His Last Days” (sent to Tatsuo Hayashida, 1966), full text at NRB; ex-
cerpts quoted in Sisir Kumar Bose, Alexander Werth, and S. A. Ayer, A Beacon
across Asia (Bombay: Orient Longman, 1973), p. 230. - Raja Mohammad Arshad, “Netaji Oration, 1996,” The Oracle, 28, no. 2 (April
1996), 7–15. - Sugata Bose, “Instruments and Idioms of Colonial and National Develop-
ment: India’s Experience in Comparative Perspective,” in Frederick Cooper and
Randall Packard, eds., International Development and the Social Sciences (Berkeley:
University of California Press, 1998), pp. 45–60. - Prem Kumar Sahgal, “The Indian National Army” (Netaji Oration, 1966),
The Oracle, 15, no. 1 (January 1993), 18. - Jyoti Basu, “Looking Back: Netaji and Indian Communists,” The Oracle, 1,
no. 1 (January 1979), 47–51. “He was among the one or two leaders of the first
rank,” Basu wrote. “I am not saying this as a Bengali, because when he or ga nized
the INA, how many Bengalis were there?” On January 23, 2010, the current com-
munist chief minister of West Bengal once more acknowledged the communists’
“mistake”; and the general secretary of the Communist party of India (Marxist)
led the demand of leftist parties to observe Bose’s birthday as Patriots’ Day. - Gopal Krishna Gandhi, “An Icon of Icons,” The Oracle, 31, no. 1 (January
2009), 11–15. - “My Political Testament,” Subhas Chandra Bose to the Governor of Bengal,
November 26, 1940, in Bose, The Alternative Leadership, p. 197.