382 Index
Mountbatten, Lord, 309, 312, 324
Mughal emperor, last, 4, 9, 250
Muhammad Amin, Haji, 192
Muhammad Shah, 191, 192
Mukherjee, Manoj, 319
Müller, Max, 228
Munshi, K. M., 154
Murray, Gilbert, 133
Murti, Jaya, 308, 316
Murti, Rama, 306, 307, 308, 316, 317, 367n11
Musenberg, Capt. Werner, 232, 235
Music, 64, 112, 125–126, 256; gambhira music
of Bengal, 62; gramophone, 115; morale of
Indian National Army (INA) and, 253
Musil, Robert, 85
Muslim League, 40, 114, 146, 150; British rela-
tions with, 173; coalition with Krishak
Praja, 119, 182, 212; Congress relations
with, 9, 123–124, 175, 177, 296, 323; consti-
tutional representation and, 118; Lahore
session (1940), 174; “pro gres sive elements”
of, 224; Simon Commission and, 72. See
also Jinnah, Mohammed Ali
Muslims, 6, 8, 82, 84, 165; Ahrars of Punjab,
172; angered by British policies, 48; “Bande
Mataram” song and, 125; of Cuttack, 24;
Gandhi and, 50–51; INA soldiers, 252; ma-
jority provinces of, 177; as minority and as
nation, 174; representation in legislature,
114; in sepoy mutiny (1857), 251; soldiers,
226; Swaraj party and, 52
Mussolini, Benito, 82, 99, 240, 326; Axis policy
toward British colonies and, 217, 218; Bose’s
ambivalence toward, 94
Mustafa el Nahas Pasha, 113
Mutaguchi Renea, General, 266, 273, 275
“My Political Testament” (Bose), 180, 181–182
“My Strange Illness” (Bose), 165
Naga community, 12, 276, 330n23
Nagasaki, atomic bombing of, 5, 297
Nagatomo, Major, 316
Naidu, Sarojini, 305
Nakamura Juichi, 315–316
Nambiar, A. C. N., 90, 129, 206, 227, 229,
368n41; on Bose’s fear of German victory,
203; on love of Bose for Emilie Schenkl, 102
Naoroji, Dadabhai and Kurshed, 3
Narayan, Jai Prakash, 136, 166
Nariman, K. F., 167
National Bank of Azad Hind, 272–273
National Congress Radio, 225
National Front, 136, 159, 166
Nationalism, 11, 25, 98; Bengali, 20; Czech and
Polish, 89–91; Egyptian, 113; famines and,
17; German, 109; Irish, 131; popular culture
of, 139; psychoanalytic insights and, 128;
secular, 258; Turkish, 95; Vietnamese, 264
Nationalism, Indian, 1, 20, 59; charkha as sym-
bol of, 45; civil ser vice and, 33–34; cosmo-
politanism and, 72; foreign examples and,
173; founders of, 3; international diplomacy
and, 86; loss of Bose and, 305; minorities
question and, 140; religion and language as
challenges for, 152; in Second World War,
214, 215
National Planning Committee, 146, 154
Nazimuddin, Khwaja, 182
Nazism (National Socialism), 2, 89, 105, 274;
brutality of, 203; Indian exiles in Berlin and,
208; racial doctrines of, 11, 204. See also
Germany
Negishi (Japanese interpreter), 301, 315
Nehru, Indira. See Gandhi, Indira
Nehru, Jawaharlal, 26–27, 73, 324; on All-In-
dia Congress Committee, 71; on Bhagat
Singh’s popularity, 81; Bose’s correspon-
dence with, 110–111, 115; Bose’s criticism
of, 161–162; on Britain’s global imperialism,
139; in China, 262; on communism and fas-
cism, 98; comparison with Bose, 325; as
Congress party leader, 108, 123; dominion
sta tus for India and, 77; in Europe, 107–108,
145–146; Gandhi and, 127, 136–137, 162; as
guest at home of Sarat Bose, 184; INA unit
named after, 252, 287, 288; as India’s first
prime minister, 326; in jail, 103–104; lodg-
ing in Sarat Bose home, 125; as “modernist”
leader, 153; Muslim League and, 147; Na-
tional Planning Committee and, 146; parti-
tion and, 323; protest against Bose’s impris-
onment, 113; Quit India movement and,
222, 223; on Red Fort trial of INA of fi cers,
6; report on Bose’s death and, 314, 318; Sec-
ond World War and, 206; singular national-
ism of, 174; Soviet Union supported by, 104
Nehru, Kamala, 103, 104, 107
Nehru, Pandit Motilal, 3, 12, 72, 76; as barris-
ter, 7; dominion sta tus for India and, 73, 74;
Swaraj party and, 52, 87
Nelson, Sir Frank, 208
New America, The: The New World (Wells), 103