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

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India in Bondage (Sunderland), 87
Indian Army, British, 6, 8, 198, 234; com-
mander-in-chief, 10; contact with Indian
National Army (INA), 295; his tory of colo-
nial repression and, 322; Janjua Rajputs in,
8–9; “martial races” and, 32; restive soldiers
in, 310; in Second World War, 8–9, 241, 275,
288
Indian Civil Liberties Union, 115
Indian Civil Service (ICS), 8, 33–34, 38, 39,
100; Bose’s resignation from, 42–44, 49, 128,
131, 198, 321; examination for, 35, 47, 60
Indian Currency and Finance (Keynes), 36
Indian Inde pen dence League, 3, 241, 244; Bose
as leader of, 278; in Japan, 306; leaders
killed in airplane crash, 242; Thailand as
base of, 248; women’s regiment of INA and,
247
Indian-Irish Inde pen dence League, 93, 107
Indian Legion, 210, 225, 227
Indian National Army (INA), 1, 4, 13; Azad
Brigade, 277, 281; British intelligence esti-
mates, 242, 282–283; in Burma, 5, 266–267,
270–271, 287–291; European nationalist in-
spirations for, 90; formation of, 239; fund-
ing for, 14; Gandhi Brigade, 270, 276–277,
278, 280, 281; hospitals, 288, 289, 291, 297;
Japanese relations with, 12, 251–252, 261,
266–267, 275, 283; in Malaya, 285, 296; me-
morial to fallen heroes of, 297, 299, 312,
324, 327; military failure, 321; Muslim
League relations with, 296; Nehru Brigade,
28, 287; newspaper stories about, 309; in
Pakistan army, 324; po lit i cal education in,
257; POWs in Singapore recruited into, 242;
Red Fort trial of of fi cers, 1, 6–10, 259, 309,
310, 323; retreat in Burma, 280, 292–295;
romance of, 322; second INA, 243; strength
of, 251, 274, 282; Subhas Brigade, 266, 267,
270, 276, 281, 292, 294. See also Rani of
Jhansi Regiment
Indian National Congress (Congress party), 1,
2, 107, 227; anti-imperialism and, 119, 131–
132; “Bande Mataram” song and, 124–125;
Bose as president of, 7, 123, 127, 133, 146,
180, 326; Bose’s criticism of, 40, 177–178;
coalition politics and, 126, 149–152; consti-
tutional reforms (1919) and, 48; declared
unlawful, 83; “dominion sta tus” for India
and, 73, 74, 77, 78; election successes of,
118; Gandhi as leader, 42; general strike


called for, 49; Hindu–Muslim relations and,
53, 174–176; in de pen dence pledge of, 230;
leaders of, 26, 40, 52, 108; Muslim League
relations with, 9, 123–124, 175, 177, 296,
323; negotiations with British of fi cials, 50;
as premier nationalist or ga ni za tion, 82;
presidency of, 73; purna swaraj (“complete
in de pen dence”) as goal of, 192; right wing
of, 155, 159; Second World War and, 170;
socialist party within, 136, 148, 166; so-
cial movements and, 77; swaraj (self-rule)
as goal of, 47; and tricolor flag, 131, 210.
See also All-India Congress Committee
(AICC); Congress Working Committee;
Forward Bloc; High Command, of Con-
gress
Indian Pilgrim, An (Bose autobiography), 128
Indian Struggle, The (Bose), 100–102, 104, 132,
229, 234
Indochina, French, 264
Indo-German Society, 91, 228
Indonesia, 263, 264
Industrialism, 141, 145, 146
Innes, Arthur D., 36
Insein Jail (Burma), 45, 68, 69
Intellectuals: British, 101, 133; in Czechoslova-
kia, 90; French, 105; Indian, 131
Intelligence agents, 265, 266, 270, 278, 287;
American, 312; captured by British, 283,
284; German, 301
Intelligence agents, British, 209, 250, 279;
Bose’s escape and, 193; INA strength esti-
mated by, 242, 282–283; news of Bose’s
death and, 6, 309–310
International Committee on India, 93
Internationalism, 103, 261
Interpretation of Dreams (Freud), 115
Iqbal, Muhammad, 211
Iran, 196, 197
Iraq, 140, 196, 197, 204
Ireland, 35, 67, 123, 259, 294; analogy with In-
dia, 37; anticolonial struggle of, 189; Bose’s
trip to Irish Free State, 104, 105–107; con-
stitutional convention for, 78, 172, 173; dec-
laration of in de pen dence, 5, 254, 255; divi-
sive policies of British in, 216; Easter Rising
(1916), 60, 105; his tory and literature of,
60–61; Irish Free State, 133; nationalist
leaders, 131; Republic of Eire, 133; sectari-
anism in, 140
Irving, Washington, 24
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