Atlantic Charter (1941) 113–14
Attlee, Clement 76, 134, 148
Auchinleck, Lord 120
Auden, W.H. 103
authenticity 7–10, 23, 195
Azad, Maulana Abul Kalam 101, 113,
122, 129, 130, 235Baba Ramchandra 48–9
Backward Castes seeScheduled Castes
Baghdad Pact 211, 216, 218, 222
Bandung Conference 216, 217,
219–22, 239, 247, 264
Bengal 26, 32, 62, 66, 126, 173, 184;
annulment of partition of 29;
Calcutta and Noakhali violence
130–1; communist electoral gains
in West Bengal 229; and East
India Company 11; and Muslim
League 22, 124, 129; and partition
133, 136–7; provincial autonomy,
Muslim politics and agrarian
relations 88, 91–2, 121; Swadeshi
movement 19–22; Tebhaga
movement in 154; terrorist
movement in 30–1, 41, 69–70, 78
Bengal Famine 119–20, 127
Benthall, Sir Edward 77, 111
Bernal, J.D. 260
Besant, Annie 14–15, 24, 31–2, 36
Bevin, Ernest 165, 179
bhadralok19, 91, 92, 209
Bhave, Vinoba 109, 195–6
bhoodan195–6, 206
Birla, G.D. 68, 84–5, 174, 228
Bogor Conference 216
Bolsheviks 42–3, 55, 67
Bose, Sarat Chandra 136
Bose, Subhas Chandra 66, 78–9, 151,
159, 184, death 126; activities in
Germany and Japan 110; appoints
National Planning Committee 96;
death 126; ‘Tripuri crisis’ 97–101
Boundary Commission (Radcliffe
Commission) 136–7Boy Scouts 17, 53
boycott and burning of British-made
goods 19–20, 41, 47, 51, 68
Bradley, Ben 76
Brailsford, H.N. 4
Brockway, Fenner 4, 58–9
Brooks, Ferdinand 13–15, 103
Buddhism 14
Bulganin, Nikolai 221
Burma: and borders with China 240,
244; independence of 200; and
Japanese invasion 112; loss of rice
imports from 119; and Nehru’s
foreign policy 158, 159; Nehru’s
visit to, 94; and non-alignment
203, 216; separation from British
India 209–10Cabinet Mission (1946) 129–30, 133,
135
Cambodia 203, 218
Cambridge 4, 17–26, 58, 135, 190
Cambridge Indian Majlis 23, 25
Caroe, Sir Olaf 177
Casement, Roger 32, 51
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
205–6, 231, 235–6, 241, 249,
260–1
Central Treaty Organisation
(CENTO) 218
Ceylon 159, 200, 203, 216, 219
Chattopadhyay, Virendranath 43, 60,
104
Chetty, Shanmukham 163
Chiang Kai-shek (Jiang Jieshi) 59,
113, 158
China 59, 60, 66, 70, 95, 104,
158–60, 203–5, 222, 259, 260;
ancient civilisation of 145, 146;
anti-Japanese war 113; and
Bandung 217–21; and border
dispute 237–46; India as base for
airlifts to 112; Indian admiration
for revolutionary China 197, 208;
and Korean War 201–2; Nehru288 INDEX