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14. Bose, Alternative Leadership, p. 155.


15. “Secret” file labeled “Activities of Subhas Chandra Bose,” p. 5. On the same
    day, agent CB21 reported that Bose was planning to start an agitation against the
    sales tax on Inde pen dence Day, January 26, 1941.


16. Sisir Kumar Bose, Great Escape, pp. 24–28.


17. Ibid., pp. 28–31.


18. Sisir Kumar Bose, Bosubari (Calcutta: Ananda, 1985), p. 111.


19. Sisir Kumar Bose, Great Escape, pp. 31–39.


20. Ibid., pp. 39–40.


21. Mian Akbar Shah, “Netaji’s Great Escape,” pp. 78–81; Krishna Bose, “Netajir
    Shange Mian Akbar Shah,” in Krishna Bose, Prasanga Subhaschandra (Calcutta:
    Ananda, 1993), pp. 117–125.


22. Mian Akbar Shah, “Netaji’s Great Escape,” pp. 78–81; “Bhagat Ram’s Story,”
    Interrogation Report on Bhagat Ram Talwar following his arrest in November
    1942, WO 208/773 (TNA), pp. 1–2; Bhagat Ram Talwar, “My Fifty- five Days with
    Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose,” in Sisir Kumar Bose, ed., Netaji and India’s Freedom
    (Calcutta: Netaji Research Bureau, 1975), pp. 159–161. Bhagat Ram Talwar’s ac-
    counts are slightly inaccurate with respect to the exact dates, which I have cross-
    checked with other sources. See Sisir Kumar Bose, Great Escape, p. 60.


23. Mian Akbar Shah, “Netaji’s Great Escape,” p. 85; “Bhagat Ram’s Story,”
    WO 208/773 (TNA), p. 2; Bhagat Ram Talwar, “My Fifty- five Days,” pp. 161–177;
    Sisir Kumar Bose, Great Escape, p. 60. I have corrected the inaccuracies in report-
    ing exact dates in Bhagat Ram Talwar’s accounts.


24. Sisir Kumar Bose, Great Escape, pp. 40–43.


25. Viceroy Linlithgow to Secretary of State, January 30, 1941, L/P&J/400
    (BL, IOR).


26. Government of India, Home Department, Political Confidential File 135/41
    (NAI).


27. Sisir Kumar Bose, Remembering My Father (Calcutta: Netaji Research Bu-
    reau, 1988), pp. 108–109.


28. Home Political 135/41 (NAI); J. V. B. Janvrin, Secret report “Subhas Bose”
    dated January 27, 1941; J. V. B. Janvrin, Special Branch, Calcutta, to G. H.
    Puckle, Intelligence Bureau, New Delhi, January 29, 1941, R/3/2/20–21–22
    (IOR, BL).


29. J. G. Laithwaite, Viceroy’s House, New Delhi, to M. O. Carter, Governor’s
    House, Calcutta, February 4, 1941, R/3/2/20 (IOR, BL).


30. Home Political 135/41 (NAI).


31. Sisir Kumar Bose, Great Escape, p. 40.


32. “Bhagat Ram’s Story,” WO 208/773 (TNA), p. 2; Bhagat Ram Talwar, “My
    Fifty- five Days,” pp. 180–185.


33. Telegram from Pilger, Kabul, to Reich Foreign Minister, Berlin, February 5,
    1941, Political Department (GFO archives).