372 IndexAyer, Sibbier Appadurai, 253, 279, 288, 292,
301, 320; on Bose under fire, 285; death of
Bose and, 305–307, 308, 311, 316; as minis-
ter of publicity and pro pa ganda, 255; on
plans for Bose to leave Singapore, 300; on
prospect of Bose being taken prisoner, 299;
on retreat of INA in Burma, 293–294; as
witness at Red Fort trial, 309
Azad, Abul Kalam, 151, 154, 168, 173; on
Bose’s escape from British India, 217; disci-
plinary action against Bose brothers, 178;
INA unit named after, 252; Quit India
movement and, 222; at Simla conference,
296
Azad Hind (journal), 227–228, 230
Azad Hind (Free India) movement, 239, 247,
257, 320
Azad Hind (Free India) Radio, 213, 216, 225
Azad Muslim League/Radio, 224, 225
Azad School, 265
Bagri, Captain, 291
Bahadur Shah Zafar, 4–5, 250, 279
Baldwin, Stanley, 71
Ba Maw, 248, 249
“Bande Mataram” song, 124–125, 126, 211
Bandung conference (1955), 261
Banerjee, Rakhaldas, 61
Banerjee, Surendranath, 26, 43
Banerjee, Suresh, 26
Banerji, J. K., 206
Bangadarshan (journal), 124
Ban gla desh, 12
Banglar Katha (newspaper), 52
Bardoloi, Gopinath, 149
Bari, Abdul, 77
Barzini, Luigi, 218
Basanti Devi, 49, 54, 70, 96; motherly sta tus
of, 71, 137; Subhas’s letters to, 67, 77, 78;
visit to Bose brothers in jail, 84
Bashir, S. M., 273
Basu, Jatindra Nath, 66
Basu, Provas Chandra, 84
Belgium, 105
Benes, Edouard, 104, 134
Bengal, 84, 149; anticolonialism in, 56; Benga-
lis as “nonmartial race,” 32; famine in, 3, 16,
239, 249–250; first British foothold in, 17;
gambhira music and dance, 62; Hinduism
in, 19; Hindu–Muslim relations in, 53–54,
114; his tory and literature of, 61; INA’s
planned advance into, 266, 274; last in de-
pen dent Nawab of, 177, 180; Muslim sul-
tans of, 18; partition of, 20, 22; po lit i cal
base of Bose in, 166; Provincial Congress
Committee, 53, 71, 167, 175; Quit India
movement in, 223; Second World War and,
214
Bengali language, 20, 21, 130; Bose’s written
communications in, 23–24, 198, 265; publi-
cations in, 52; radio broadcasts in, 225
Bentham, Jeremy, 22
Bergson, Henri, 27, 83, 121
Berlin, city of, 91–92, 105, 109–110, 198–199;
as a diasporic space for Indians, 91, 199;
Emilie Schenkl with Bose in, 206, 208, 230,
231
Betai, Shrimati, 272
Bhagat, N. S., 255
Bhagat Singh, 75, 80–81
Bhagavad Gita, 56, 58, 116, 183, 253
Bharatmata (“Mother India”), 124, 287, 314
Bhatt, K. M., 206, 227
Bhonsle, J. K., 244, 255, 292, 293
Bihar, 17, 20, 214, 223
Birla, Ghanshyam Das, 150, 151, 154, 155
Black Hole of Calcutta legend, 180
Bolshevism, 81, 173
Bose, Amiya (nephew, son of Sarat), 114, 129
Bose, Anita (daughter), 231, 287, 304, 311,
358n74; birth of, 229
Bose, Asoke (nephew, son of Sarat), 186, 190,
195
Bose, Aurobindo (nephew, son of Suresh),
188, 189, 194
Bose, Benoy (revolutionary), 79
Bose, Bivabati (sister-in-law), 47, 63, 64, 70–
71, 185, 266; funeral of Jatindranath Das
and, 77; Subhas’s letters to, 71; in Vienna
after war, 358n74; visit to Bose brothers in
jail, 84
Bose, Dasarath (ancestor), 18
Bose, Dwijen (nephew, son of Satish), 187, 189
Bose, Gopinath (ancestor), 18
Bose, Ila (niece, daughter of Sisir), 187, 189
Bose, Janakinath (father), 15, 18–19, 24, 33;
civil ser vice question and, 41; death of, 99,
183; Rai Bahadur title, 23; support for “doc-
trine of sac ri fice,” 49
Bose, Mahipati (ancestor), 18
Bose, Nandalal (painter), 139, 155
Bose, Prabhabati (mother), 15, 19, 183, 193;