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

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  1. Hasan, Men from Imphal, pp. 1–12; Khan, My Memories, pp. 158–159.

  2. “Our Baptism of Fire” (press statement, August 21, 1944), in Bose, Chalo
    Delhi, pp. 264–265; Khan, My Memories, pp. 162–163.

  3. Hasan, Men from Imphal, pp. 7–9.

  4. Ibid. See also Raja Muhammad Arshad, “The Retreat” (written at the Red
    Fort, October 1945), The Oracle, 16, no. 4 (October 1994), 1–56.

  5. Hasan, Men from Imphal, p. 11; Toye, The Springing Tiger, p. 121; Krishna
    Bose, Prasanga Subhaschandra, p. 51.

  6. “Survey of Foreign Intelligence Activities Directed against Indian Security,
    dated October 2, 1944,” WO 208/829 (TNA).

  7. Fay, The Forgotten Army, p. 296.

  8. Khan, My Memories, p. 161; “Weekly Intelligence Summary no. 150, Sep-
    tember 15, 1944,” cited in Fay, The Forgotten Army, p. 298.

  9. “The Landing of the Following Eight Japanese Agents from a Submarine on
    the Kathiawar Coast on the Night of 22/23 December 1943”; Criminaire, New
    Delhi, to McDonough, War Emergency Department, Colombo, January 13, 1944;
    “Statement of Kartar Singh,” File 276/INA (NAI); J. C. Wilson, “Landing of Japa-
    nese Agents”; A. W. Macdonald, “The JIF Landing in Kathiawar, December 1943”;
    all in Mss. Eur. F161, Box 6, File 3 (IOR, BL), from Wilson onward.

  10. Sisir Kumar Bose, The Great Escape, pp. 49–51, 64–72; Pilger, German Min-
    ister, Kabul, to Berlin, May 4, 1944 (GFO); E. H. Le Brocq, “Bengal Police at War”
    (“Indian Police Collection,” Mss. Eur. F161/5/3) (IOR, BL).

  11. “Suspected Enemy Activities: Extract from Home Department War Histo-
    ries, Dated January 23, 1945, by Sir Richard Tottenham, Additional Home Secre-
    tary,” Mss. Eur. F161, Box 9, File 3 (IOR, BL).

  12. Ayer, Unto Him a Witness, pp. 265–266.

  13. “The Human Spirit Is More Powerful Than Steel and Armour” (broadcast
    on “Army Day,” October 18, 1944), in Bose, Chalo Delhi, pp. 269–275.

  14. M. Z. Kiani, India’s Freedom Struggle, pp. 137–144; A. C. Chatterji, India’s
    Struggle for Freedom, p. 251; Ayer, Unto Him a Witness, p. 16; Krishna Bose, Chara-
    narekha Taba, p. 79.

  15. “The Fundamental Problems of India” (address to faculty and students of
    Tokyo University, November 1944), in Bose, Chalo Delhi, pp. 285–301.

  16. M. Z. Kiani, India’s Freedom Struggle, p. 141. A Russian translation of Bose’s
    message exists in the KGB archives.

  17. Quoted in Toye, The Springing Tiger, p. 129; Subhas Chandra Bose to Sri
    Rama Murti, December 14, 1944, in Bose, Chalo Delhi, pp. 443–444.

  18. Subhas Chandra Bose to the INA cadets, November 29, 1944, in Bose, Chalo
    Delhi, p. 437.

  19. Subhas Chandra Bose to the INA cadets, December 14, 1944, ibid., p. 442.

  20. Subhas Chandra Bose to M. Satiavati Thevar, May 14, 1944; idem, June 18,
    1944; idem, June 21, 1944; idem, August 4, 1944; idem, August 19, 1944; idem,

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