376 Index
Das, Beni Madhav, 21
Das, Debnath, 255, 266, 301–302, 320
Das, Deshbandhu Chittaranjan (C. R. Das),
10, 40, 43, 63, 70, 96; as Bose’s po lit i cal guru,
193; Bose’s prison essay on, 59–60; on boy-
cott of legislature, 51; communism rejected
by, 55; death of, 58–59, 79; elected mayor of
Calcutta, 53; on “federation of cultures,” 75;
Hindu–Muslim unity and, 53, 176; honor-
ific title of, 209; in jail, 50; on life and poli-
tics, 160; noncooperation policy and, 47, 48;
Swaraj party and, 87; widow of, 137
Das, Jatindranath, 76–77, 181
De, K. P., 309
“Dead Soldier, The” (Siegerson), 60
Defence of India Rules, 180, 183
Demel, Rudolf, 103
Democracy, 2, 72–73, 131, 158; in Congress
party, 142, 155, 160, 167, 178; education
under colonial rule and, 30; Second World
War and, 171; struggle against imperialism
and, 174
Desai, Bhulabhai, 7, 8
Desai, C. C., 36
Desai, Mahadev, 127
Dev, Narendra, 154
De Valera, Eamon, 37, 105–106, 133, 189
Devanagari script, 140
Dharmavir, Sita, 141, 152
Dharmavir family, 37, 120, 123, 127
Dhillon, Gurbaksh Singh, 287–288, 291; plea
for return of Bose’s remains to India, 320;
on trial at Red Fort, 6, 8, 9, 310
Diaspora, Indian, 91, 199
Dictatorship, 201, 325
Diseases, 58, 325; cholera, 32; in flu enza, 152;
malaria, 152; plague, 58; smallpox, 32, 58;
tuberculosis, 67; typhoid, 27, 32
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 60
Duke, Sir William, 43, 44
Durga. See Kali or Durga (mother goddess)
Dutch colonial empire, 264, 322
Dutt, Batukeshwar, 75
Dutt, Rajani Palme, 131–132
Dutt, Romesh Chunder, 16, 39, 40
Dutt family, 19
Dyer, Gen. Reginald, 36, 48
East, Gordon, 115
Economic History of India in the Victorian Age,
The (Dutt), 16
Egypt, 35, 51, 70, 112–113, 140, 158, 220
Elections, 53, 114
El-Gilani, Rashid Ali, 230
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 62
En glish language, 18, 20, 21, 96, 120; Azad
Hind (Free India) Radio broadcasts in, 225;
Bose’s letters to elder brother Sarat in, 24;
last conversations of Bose in, 313; Nehru’s
speeches in, 139; newspapers in, 52, 335n17;
proclamation of Provisional Government
in, 257
Escape. See Bose, Subhas Chandra, escape
from British India
Ethiopia (Abyssinia), 108–109, 131
Europa (Briffault), 121
“Europe: Today and Tomorrow” (Bose), 122
Ewer, W. Norman, 101
Exile, Subhas Bose’s travels in: Britain, 131–
134, 144; Czechoslovakia and Poland, 89–
91, 134; France, 107; Germany, 91–92, 95,
108; Indian nationalist message in Europe,
87–102; Irish Free State, 105–107; return to
India (1936), 112–113; Switzerland, 107; Vi-
enna, 85–87, 89, 96
Expatriates, Indian, 105, 259; in Bangkok and
Thailand, 238, 247–248, 302; in Burma, 248;
in Malaya, 290–291; in Philippines, 263; in
Southeast Asia, 246; in Vietnam, 296, 302
Eyeless in Gaza (Huxley), 121
Factors in Modern History (Pollard), 36
Famines, 15–16, 17, 27, 239, 249–250
Faqir of Ipi, 202, 220
Fascism, 11, 89, 172, 201, 203; Bose accused of
being fascist, 274; comparison with Allied
democracies, 2; comparison with commu-
nism, 132; Ital ian, 94. See also Nazism (Na-
tional Socialism)
Federal Scheme, 149, 155
Federation of Indian Students, 94, 109
Fianna Fáil party (Ireland), 105, 106
Figgess, Colonel J. G., 312
Findlay, Major, 65, 68
First World War. See World War, First
Fi scher, Louis, 2, 3
Flowerdew, Major, 68
Foch, Marshal Ferdinand, 294
Forward (newspaper), 52, 65
Forward Bloc, 166, 168, 186, 211; anti-imperi-
alism and, 176; Bose’s escape and, 191; Bur-
mese Freedom Bloc and, 248