384 Index
Puri, Swami Satyananda, 242
Pushto language, 191, 225
Quaroni, Pietro, 196, 203
Quezon, Manuel, 263
Quit India movement, 6, 222–223, 225, 233,
251, 273
Qureshi, Shuaib, 71
Rachodhan, Anuman, 302
Racism, 11, 27, 29
Radical League, 166
Raghavan, N., 273, 298, 301, 369n41
Rahman, Habibur, 206, 225, 285, 301, 311;
with Bose on fatal airplane flight, 302–303,
306, 307–308, 313, 314, 315, 320; at crema-
tion ceremony for Bose, 316; in Kashmir
war, 324; as witness at Red Fort trial, 309
Rahman, Sheikh Mujibur, 12
Rai, Lala Lajpat, 75, 81, 175
Raj (British India), 135, 154, 186, 199, 214,
321; armed rebellion against, 274; British
relief at news of Bose’s death, 309; cap ital
cities of, 25; civil disobedience against, 78–
79; civil ser vice, 33–34, 38; constitution
(1935), 110, 114, 133; constitutional re-
forms (1919), 41, 48; elections in, 118, 155,
156; end of, 323; famines, 15–17; “fascist”
designation of, 172; final showdown with,
180, 213; German compromise with British
and, 216; Hitler’s support for, 91; Indian
loyalists of, 51–52; map of, 138 ; provinces
of, 123, 149; rejection of compromise with,
153; repressive force of, 223; Second World
War and, 171, 202. See also Bose, Subhas
Chandra, escape from British India; British
Empire
Rajguru, 81
Rajkot, princely state of, 158, 159, 161, 163
Ram (epic hero), 136
Ramakrishna Mission, 253, 275
Ramakrishna Parahamsa, 22, 25, 26, 327
Ranade, Mahadev Govind, 16
Ranga, N. G., 126, 167
Rani of Jhansi Regiment, 281, 284, 286, 300;
recruitment of, 246–247, 267; retreat from
Burma, 292, 293, 294. See also Indian Na-
tional Army (INA)
Rao, Narasimha, 326
Ravenshaw Collegiate School, 20
Reading, Lord (viceroy of India), 50
“Rebel, The” (Pearse), 60
Reddaway (head of Fitzwilliam Hall), 35, 43
Red Fort (Delhi), 3, 4, 245, 271; INA of fi cers
on trial at, 1, 6–10, 259, 309, 310, 323; In-
dian tricolor flag hoisted at, 314; trial of last
Mughal emperor at, 250
Regions, of India, 224, 234, 239, 246; Bengal as
Bose’s homeland, 63; composition of Bose’s
cabinet and, 255; linguistic, 152; martial
valor of INA and, 281–282; power-sharing
among, 323; regional rights, 148; support
for Bose, 156, 167; women of INA and, 234
Religion, 23, 60, 152, 165; British divide-and-
rule tactics and, 140; common prayer pro-
posal for soldiers, 226; democracy and, 73;
rational philosophy and, 26; religious mi-
norities, 326; science and, 22; sectarian ri-
valries, 27; unity of Indian soldiers and,
281–282. See also entries for spe cific religions
“Renunciation” (Pearse), 60
Revolution and revolutionaries, 55, 68; Aurob-
indo as inspiration, 26; Bose’s sympathy for,
86; communist revolution in Russia, 37;
diasporic Indians, 91; escape of Bose from
British India and, 195; execution of, 124; as
goal of Indian National Army (INA), 245;
imprisoned on Andaman Island, 264; legal
defense of, 79; Presidency College students,
25; proletarian, 88; renunciation of violence
and, 56; of Swadeshi era, 37, 39; terrorism
and, 100; women idealized as mother fig-
ures by, 102
Ribbentrop, Joachim von, 185, 202, 216; Axis
policy toward India and, 217; Bose’s corre-
spondence with, 205, 219, 222, 230; Bose’s
meeting with, 204; field headquarters in
Ukraine, 229; Hitler’s meeting with Bose
and, 220
Rolland, Romain, 82, 94, 101–102, 103, 111
Romania, 95
Roman script, adoption of, 95, 140
Rommel, Field Marshal Erwin, 220, 227, 232
Roosevelt, Franklin D., 214, 221, 263
Rowlatt Act (1919), 48
Roy, Bidhan Chandra, 70, 167
Roy, Dilip Kumar, 27–28, 36, 37, 58, 193, 322;
Bose’s release from prison and, 119–120;
correspondence with Bose, 61–63; European
exile of Bose and, 89